Stéphane Belzère⎜The Long paintings Project - FEMS Prize

As part of its collaboration with the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation, the Pully Art Museum is hosting the work of the winner of the 2011 FEMS Prize, Stéphane Belzère. One of the characteristics of this prize is to support its recipients in order to help them successfully complete the project that they themselves have defined, based on a theme proposed each year. "Earth, Air, Sea" was the one of the FEMS "Painting" prize in 2011. It incited this Franco-Swiss artist to conduct a whole reflection on the notion of "inner landscape".

Stéphane Belzère's painting indeed opens up to large spaces and arouses the illusion of vast landscapes that everyone carries within themselves: "The work theme of the landscape (earth, sky, sea), reminds me the inner landscapes, these impressions that I try, after my elders, to make visible on paintings called "Long paintings".

It is not known whether these very large-format works represent or suggest, whether they are real or imaginary, observed or dreamed, but they irresistibly evoke Monet's long water lilies and Ferdinand Hodler's landscapes based on his theory of parallelism. By a vertiginous change of scale, the painter thus invites the viewer to reconsider the very notion of landscape, whether it is tiny or excessive, open or confined, tormented or peaceful.

May 23 - August 4, 2013