Alain Clément: SELECTED WORKS 2004-2021

Kimreeaa Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Alain Clément (b. 1941, France), an artist based in Nîmes and Paris whose practice has continued to evolve over more than four decades. Clément began painting at the age of twenty and developed his career as a largely self-taught artist, cultivating a distinct visual language rooted in rhythm, movement, and the interplay of color and form.

In the 1990s, he constructed pictorial space through strokes, bands, and ribbon-like forms, creating compositions marked by dynamic color divisions and gestures filled with energy. His use of vivid hues infused the works with a lively, almost musical quality. From the 2000s onward, Clément shifted toward a more restrained palette and continuous curved ribbons, producing simplified yet design-oriented structures. Although abstract, these forms evoke distilled shapes found in nature and the human figure, rendered with clarity and lightness. What appears as formal simplicity unfolds into a spatial depth that plays a central role in his work.

Clément’s practice spans painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, and his works are held in major public collections, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Centre Pompidou’s Musée national d’Art moderne.