Visions

Painting / Drawing

*	Michel Saja
Medium	acrylics, oil, coating, painting
Street	7 avenue Gambetta
City	Dieppe
Country	France
Phone	0031 644049602

About the Artist Contact: funk_bertrand@yahoo.fr Michel Saja freely explored the art of painting after he attended art school, refusing to be limited by any specific style or influence. He worked with different mediums including: ink, charcoal, water color, oil, acrylics, earth, and pigments. He is also influenced by architecture, faces, bodies and landscape. He often takes his inspiration from his extensive travels and long journeys throughout different regions of the world. The discovery of the range and diversity of cultures, feelings and forms of expression lead him to explore different interpretations of reality as applied to his subjects. Reality is often transposed into symbolism, becoming closer to dream visions that exist at the border of the subconscious. Now, his artistic path has become focused on light and darkness as polarities - from this antagonism movement and form are given life in his work. Light and darkness, as the original principles, are creative forces. He expresses this through visionary landscapes that are plunged in abstract backgrounds as if they are emerging from the original chaos. The movement that results from the interaction of those primal energies becomes visible in colours that condense into shapes. Two other aspects that are omnipresent from the origin are chaos and organization. The conflict between these are the reason why natural or human shapes may arise in his paintings, seemingly from the apparent anarchy that surrounds them. As soon as light penetrates darkness, movement and energy arise.

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Michel Saja’s exhibiting work eschews specific influences, while still demonstrating comfort with the techniques and styles of the great 19th century romantic painters. He uses his art as a means to show the passage of man through the natural world, and the unexpected beauty that arises as man and nature try to assert their own forms in the world over long periods of time.
Drawing inspiration from the centuries long transformation of the ancient Greek city, Aphrodisias, this latest collection examines the creative power of entropy, and the balancing order that humans impose.
His dedication and openness to art have taken him widely through the world, and left us with a fine body of work.

1990 exhibition at Galerie Claude Surrault Paris France
1993 exhibition at Galeria Alfonso Ramon Barcelona Spain
1995 exhibition at Galerie Occitania Montpellier France
1997 Selected and participated at an international exhibition: Salon Leonard de Vinci Paris France presided by princesse Yasmine d’Ouezzan and Michel Pontoizeau.
1998 exhibition at Galerie Espace des Arts Paris France
1999 gallery Helios Lindos Rhodos Greece
2000 gallery Helios Lindos Rhodos Greece
2001 Selected and Participated at an international exhibition: Salon Leonard de Vinci Paris France presided by princesse Yasmine d’Ouezzan and Michel Pontoizeau.
2002 Corfu Imperial, Exclusive Resort Hotel Corfu, Greece
2004 Gallery Kolonaki Athens Greece
2007 Selected and Participated at an international exhibition: Salon Leonard de Vinci Paris France presided by princesse Yasmine d’Ouezzan and Michel Pontoizeau.
2009 Galerie 14 Agde France
2010 Espace de Seine Paris
2011 Espace de Seine Paris
2013 Artplus exhibition OCT Ecological Square, Nanshan District. Shenzhen
2014 Galerie Blue Corner Shenzhen

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