Les amants de Prague (2002) Printmaking by Yvan Philmer

painting that he wants "festive, producing energy and freedom" earned him to appear in exhibitions and collections scattered around the world, in England, Spain , Germany, Switzerland but also in the United States, Singapore or even in Australia and the Philippines.

Yvan Philmer - Le bonheur de vivre

Photographer, poet and author of plays, this painter recreates a society that belongs only to him, where imaginary characters are driven by an unspeakable need for love.

Wobbling buildings, garlands, lights, birds, a man astride a lamppost, acrobats, traveling people, testify to an infinite tenderness in this universe with a backward-looking character and symbolic, which relies on deformations to release a real vibratory current. But without anamorphosis, with the desire to exalt love and freedom in a space where couples display their happiness.

The frankness of the colors in the service of a very rich iconography exacerbates this phenomenon of expressionist radiance and deformations which, ultimately, stimulate good humor and humanity. And these full, flamboyant images can be decoded as a projection into Philmer's whimsical landscape that cultivates a secret garden, populated by deliberately happy people.

The twisting of forms reveals an instability and a vitalism capable of opening up to more spiritual evocations. A work ultimately full of jubilation and evocations which made a good rating, in October 2019, at the Hôtel Drouot.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists