BIOGRAPHY
Remy Pollet is born in the north of France in 1948
In 1966, Rémy Pollet joined the Arts et Métiers School in Vevey, Switzerland.
After spending a year in the graphic section, in 1967 he passed the international photography entrance exam at the Vevey school.
In 1972, he created a graphic and photographic studio and attended life-drawing sessions at the Beaux-Arts schools of Lille and Roubaix.
In the 1980s, Rémy Pollet combined his photographic work with painting. He worked mainly on portraits and still lifes. His color palette tended to be rather muted.
From the 1990s onward, his pictorial work moved toward expressionism. His palette shifted toward monochrome, and the human figure became central to his subjects. At the same time, he carried out studio photography and traveled for fashion catalogues and advertising campaigns.
On New Year’s Eve in 1990, almost all of his works—drawings, canvases, and photographs that had been stored in his studio since the 1970s—were destroyed by fire. The blaze in his studio halted his pictorial work, which he would not resume for five years.
Gray and black became part of his universe. Small and medium formats gave way to very large canvases, recalling the soot-blackened canvases and palettes found after the fire. Oil paintings rich in texture began to take shape, reflecting a desire to find harmony in opposition: matte and shine, opacity and transparency coexist.
His oil paintings on canvas became increasingly mineral, almost “asphalt-like,” where color no longer had a place. In 2010, India ink marked a new approach, corresponding to his search for free expression that allowed him to achieve deep blacks, without hesitation, on carefully chosen papers.
Rémy Pollet has never ceased to be sensitive to the meaning of forms and light, through all the encounters that have marked his life.
CV
1975, xposition Galerie Waregem Belgique 1973
1990, Incendie de l’atelier rue Royale Lille
2016, London -Master Piece Galerie Steinitz
2016, Paris- Grand Palais Galerie Steinitz
2017, San Francisco USA Fall Show
2018, Exposition BRAFA Bruxelles
2018, Exposition Galerie Fleury à Paris Art Design
2019, Exposition Galerie Costermans Bruxelles
2020, Exposition galerie AR Fleury Paris
2020 Exposition Sotheby’s Paris
2021 Exposition « Vibrations » Galerie « Des Cadres et de L’art » Tournai
2025 Exposition « Empreinte » Salon d’Automne 2025 Paris
STATEMENT
Abandoning color was not a constraint but a revelation: . By turns fragile and powerful, absorbing and reflecting, it expresses that tension between shadow and brilliance, between restraint and breath.
Black is not silence; it is modulation, rhythm, respiration. emotion.
From this dialogue emerges a harmony that is never fixed, but always alive, pulsating, and open.
At the heart of this immersion in black, a few white painting sometimes emerge. They are rare, almost confidential
white paintings do not divert the path; they accompany it discreetly, like brief apparitions within a quest dominated by the power of black.
