Coming from a modest background where books had no place, Gérard Rocherieux dreamed of studying Fine Arts where his parents imagined him to be a policeman or a letter carrier. The young Burgundian finally learned technical drawing. But it was the three short hours of art drawing taught each week that resonated with him. In 1973, he started to paint in a solitary and assiduous way, first inspired by Le Corbusier before moving on to abstraction, in the manner of Nicolas de Staël.

In the 90’s, his artistic reflection led him to elaborate a chart that synthesizes human life and from which he drew nine main themes that will henceforth be the basis of his inspiration: Waiting, Cages, Choice, Double, Heroes, World, Passage, Gaze, Life. In the studio of the castle of Charleval, he develops in 2020 a series of large format works, realized on round supports based on paper recycling. Like this Mona Lisa or this very luminous vegetal sun.