Eric Dubarry
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→ Rivages Culturels N° 11 page 19
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Selected Exhibitions – France & International
→ Halle des Blancs Manteaux – Paris, France
→ Metropolitan Theatre Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
→ Salon d’Automne – Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
→ Salon des Beaux-Arts – Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris, France
→ American Square Center – The City – London, UK
→ Art & Liberté – 71st Charenton Salon – Charenton-le-Pont, France
→ Les Planches – Deauville, France
→ Printemps des Artistes – Courbevoie, France
→ Paris Fashion Week Awards – George V, Paris, France
→ Vent de Chine – 中国风 – Saint-Nicolas, Coutances, France
→ Le Diamant de Cap Ferrat – Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France
→ Art Fair Monaco – Monaco
→ Art Fair Lausanne – Lausanne, Switzerland
→ Palazzo Rospigliosi Museum – Rome, Italy
→ Luxembourg Art Fair – Luxembourg City
→ Youth Olympics – SMLH – Charléty Stadium, Paris, France
→ The Artists – Galerie de Arts – Caen, France
→ Les Cimaises des Olympiades – Paris, France
→ Salon d’Hiver – Arts-Sciences-Lettres – Paris, France
→ FoundArt & Culture Japan – Paris, France
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Selected Awards and Distinctions
→ Silver Medal – Academy of Arts-Sciences-Letters (Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres)
→ Honorary Medal – Society of Members of the Legion of Honor (Société des Membres de la Légion d’Honneur)
→ First Prize – International Art Salon
→ International Prize of Art Professionals – Mondial Art Academia, Quebec
→ Painting Prize – Academy of Arts-Sciences-Letters
→ Honorable Mention – Abstract Painting – Mondial Art Academia, Quebec
→ Publishing Medal – Barcelona
→ French National Selection – Panama
→ First Jury Prize – Barcelona
→ Bronze Public Prize – Caen
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Born in 1958 in Caen, Eric Dubarry has held many different jobs throughout his life, allowing him to travel and experience a wide range of environments and people.
His artistic creativity remained dormant for a long time, expressed only through a few sketches, drawings, and discreet paintings.
Over the years, the need to reconnect through art became increasingly present. His first paintings emerged in the early 2000s. At that time, his production was quite eclectic, ranging from raw abstraction to geometric styles, including a more abstract form of figurative art.
Eric Dubarry chose not to exhibit his works, keeping them only for close friends and family.
During the COVID pandemic, he dedicated himself fully to painting, and in 2020, he adopted a professional status and committed entirely to his art.
His inspiration is fueled by the vibrations and sensations he feels from nature.
From that point on, he began experimenting, exploring painting while drawing from his own emotions and sensitivity. Exhibitions followed in France and abroad.
His work is clearly rooted in Lyrical Abstraction. However, his search for artistic identity, his experiences, and the techniques he developed led him to create a body of work that is highly distinctive, original, and unique.
In 2024, he registered the name of his style, Griffisme™, which symbolizes both the technique and the artistic approach he uses.
As soon as he turned professional, he joined several prestigious organizations:
• Listed Artist – Drouot
• Member of the Taylor Foundation
• Academician & Delegate of Arts-Sciences-Lettres
• Member of the Friends of the Maeght Foundation
• Knight of the Mondial Art Academia
• Member of ArtCan UK
• Exhibition Curator (Crossed Brushes France/China)
• France Correspondent for JEPAA (Japan)
• Member of AFCN 诺曼底的中法友谊 (Sino-French Friendship in Normandy)
• Member of the Institute for French Know-How
His work is presented in collections, always created using his own tools, always in the Griffisme™ style—yet each painting has its own personality.
His career has also led him to curate a Franco-Chinese exhibition and co-organize a dual exhibition in France and Japan.
In addition, Eric Dubarry participates in and contributes to various charitable causes, particularly in the fields of medical research, education, and apprenticeship.
Over the years, I have created a style and a technique that are entirely my own, which I named Griffisme™.
Griffisme™ involves, in particular, scratching the wet paint while working with the minimalist thickness of the paint, and observing how colors react when I combine them in a single gesture, always seeking light and depth. It’s a whole—it's my artistic identity.
As I dislike the clumping of materials and heavy textures, I aim to leave a refined mark on my works.
Scratching the paint, revealing the colors beneath, imprinting the surface with my gesture, letting movement express itself freely—this all stems from a great sense of liberty. It’s vital to my creative process.
My inspiration comes from how I perceive nature—not as an image but as a sensation, a feeling. It’s a vibration, layered and growing. It exists within me and creates an atmosphere that shapes me; it fills my being. I unconsciously accumulate these vibrations, in a way similar to Joan Mitchell, with whom I share a kind of emotional perception and memory.
Then comes the moment to release what is inside me. My hands reach for the tubes of paint instinctively, without thought—it’s second nature.
My gestures are influenced by this atmosphere and the music in my ears. The only remaining awareness helps me maintain a balance of colors and movements—a kind of resonance, a harmony. There’s no calculation; it’s pure spontaneity at work.
I strive to express my sensitivity and above all my emotional state by engraving gesture into the paint. The trace is crucial—it captures the emotion of the moment.
Technique isn’t everything. To paint, I need to let my mind soar beyond reality, freeing emotions and sensations without constraint.
When I paint, I sever all ties to reality, to the everyday. I forget all formalism. Only music fills my mind and helps me rise above consciousness. It’s as if I detach from myself... That is the key to letting my deepest emotions flow onto the canvas.
From this creative process emerges a vibrant, organic world—a musical and pictorial language.
The world my paintings portray is imaginary, lyrical, hypnotic, alive…
