GAYO Felipe, painting - collage, permanent artist of Galerie Capazza since 1997

Felipe Gayo’s geometrics


“Every Felipe Gayo work means Exigency, Rigor, Beauty. It introduces under our gaze some truths usually hidden and proves that, behind the look of things, some laws are ruling us. The most advance physical science teaches us that, in the beginning of the Universe, during the Big Bang - 15 billion years ago without a doubt - the power that determined the expansion of pinhead sized worlds and incredible strength, had, by exploding, shattered the Perfect Symmetry constituting it. The matrix of this perfection stayed in every atom - like a holographic sign - allowing every combination and all the structures of Material and Life - Beings and Things - and explains how it evolved, like the galaxies expansion. Our brightest philosophers, since Anaximander, Heraclites, Democritus, Parmenides, Pythagoras and Plato, had intuited the premonitions Science only now unveils. But thoughts need to be revealed by senses and Reason to find their value. The Artists role is to be just like explorers, at the forefront of research, bringing back gems of truth able to insufflate life into everyone. Felipe Gayo is one of them - his astonishing constructions build from these so fragile materials. One can think a sigh could scatter them away. On the contrary, they have absolute power! His matches, sticks, pins, are composing the magical triangles and the shapes of Intelligence and Imagination, of perfect geometry like the one in the harmony of spheres and the music from Bach. When Vasarely and Agam made their entrance on the Art scene - with great success- they hadn’t, either of them, an inspiration richer or with more qualities than their juniors of today, whose originality and talent will become a style our time won’t forget”.


André Parinaud


“Harmonics of the world


A universe made of order and construction? Without a doubt, but one can’t resume Gayo’s work that way, as it would be risky to confine this creator in a mathematical schema. To enlist him in an army made of numbers and calculus, and to confine him, his number “9” and its multiples, in a prison the key of could be the Golden Number. “I like what the scientists are doing these days, and what the theologians were looking for yesterday” says Gayo. He’s not at the end of the cycles and the final order. But the deep way, the one of the mind, is royally open. Can we remember that, for a good part of his life, Gayo was a flamenco guitar player, meaning serving an art build with rhythms. After the polyhedrons and platonic cubes from his last exhibits, here he comes reading in another ways the world harmonics, looking for flows and rhythms, playing the particles and photons game, composed from immaculate moucharabieh windows and introducing unlikely dialogues. Beyond these mathematical laces, proliferation of signs, we can find whether the earth flesh, its follies and miracles, whether extreme buildings, wearing white, his only true color. Through these settings, cut cardboards, edges preserving from the universe or enigmatic legends (Gayo’s art is also a written one), emerge a real poetry. In front of so many fulfillments (“everything is number”), we won’t wonder, as for the human hands introducing mistakes in oriental carpets, if God is perfect. We’ll admire simply the unclassifiable quests and the uncompromising ethics of Felipe Gayo. To follow silently, according to the daylight mood”.
Jacques Gantie



Silence squares

Their repetitive apparent complexity

Would make mind find

A kind of inside calm?

Zen garden,

“Kare-sansui”, Japanese words:

There, where the water flows without flowing.

Silence squares

Perhaps

There, where multiplicity vanishes without vanishing”.

Felipe Gayo

   

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Biography

1936 - 2018

50’s  Musical studies in Paris, Madrid and South of Spain

60’s  15 years trip to the United States
Solist at Greenwich Village and at Broadway
Intense participation to the 60’s renew

70’s  Member of New-York Electric String Ensemble
Music compositions
Trip to Jamaica, encounter with reggea music
Publication in Paris of a piece for two guitars Maté
Back in the South of France
Lithographes book introduced by philosopher Aimé Michel
Exhibition L’Essentiel, Paris

80’s  Retreat in Dordogne, ancesters’ region
Studying Plato’s perfect bodies
Exhibition of polyhedrons (terracotta) at Cloître of Saint-Emilion, France
Last concert in Rouen together with Duo Fontanarosa and A. Lagoya, France

90’s  Back to the region of Vence, France
Contemporary art fairs, Menton and Monte-Carlo
Biennale of Brignoles, France
Fondation E. Hugues, Vence, France
Fondation Sophia-Antipolis, France
Salon des Arts de la Rue, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Chapelle des Pénitents, Vence, France
Ceramica oggi, Bordighera, Italy
Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Fiac 95, Galerie Catherine Issert, France
Francfort 96, Galerie Claude Samuel, France

1997  Galerie Lilo Marti, Saint-Paul de Vence, France

1998  Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France
Espace Cardin, Paris, Galerie Capazza, France
Alliance Française de Bologne, Italy

1999  Rencontres d’Art, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
Rencontres d’Art, Musée de Pau, France

2000  Espace Saint-Cyprien, Toulouse, France
Rencontres d’Art, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
Rencontres d’Art, Musée de Pau, France
Galerie Lilo Marti, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Rétrospective de la Galerie de la Salle, Château de Carros, France

2001  Un double regard, art encounter, Cathédrale Saint-Etienne, Cahors, France
Creation of a graphic environment for the concert of International Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges, Galerie Capazza, France

2002  Galerie Alain Couturier, Nice, France
Rencontres d’Art, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
Galerie Moscato, Aix-en-Provence, France

2003  Rencontres d’Art, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
Le monde blanc, Abbaye de Beaulieu en Rouergue, France

2004  St’art, art fair of Strasbourg, Galerie Capazza, France

2005  Eros, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2006  Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2007  X vu par, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2008  Noir et blanc, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2009  Les Fondamentaux Plastiques, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2010  On the road again, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2011  A fleur de peau, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2012  Matières à réflexions, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France
Art Elysées, contemporary art fair, Paris, France

2013  Rendez-vous au lieu de la transformation, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2014  Naturalisme intégral, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2017  Solo show, Galerie Capazza, Nançay
Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2018  Miroir des Sentiments, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2019  Re-Naissance(s), collective exhibition, carte blanche à la Galerie Capazza, Hôtel Gouin, Tours

2020  Le torse d’une femme à la pureté d’un vase, grands courbes simples d’un fruit désiré, Parcours d’art contemporain autour d’Auguste Rodin, 1 exhibition, 5 locations, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

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