Guy Coda obtained the diploma from the National School of Decorative Art in Paris in 1978.
He currently teaches there and has his workshop in Bonneval.
In his paintings shapes are entwined, creased and shredded to pieces.
Masses clash and echo each other, dividing the canvass into regions of uncertain limits; telluric alphabet drawn with thick brush strokes.
Here, energy is positive – it builds the space for image using colour and the accidents of matter induced by the painter’s gesture.
The refined tonalities, the contrasts, the nimble or restrained gesture and the reasoned geometry of the whole lead to a dynamic balance of the image.
Guy says “Painting does not require words.
It does not have to be formulated into sentences.
It provides something which is above all to be looked at.
It is to be grasped in a moment which lasts as long as the emotion it generates.
Painting is an abstraction which creates an image where images are no longer more than anecdotes.
In the way, in a figurative work it is not simply the subject that matter so much as the method of its expression.
The picture speaks through the unspoken – all that is needed is contained within.”