Denis Prieur exhibition: "everything that connects us"

Denis Prieur, everything that connects us:

Born in 1957, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1973 at the age of 16. He worked in the studios of Pierre Carron and Pierre Faure. In 1977, he exhibited for the first time at the Maison des Beaux-Arts in Paris and met gallery owner Albert Loeb, who presented his work the same year. Exhibited several times at the Maison des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1978, 1991), he took part in the Monaco Salon in 1996 and 1997, and exhibited at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris in 1995. Some of his works are in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Denis Prieur comes from a family of great artists. From the age of fourteen, he was making pastels at the Louvre, by Poussin, David and Chassériau. His main shock was Delacroix at the Louvre and Saint Sulpice. He was captivated by Delacroix's sense of projection and movement, the twisting of light and the turning of volumes towards depth.

Denis Prieur's works in the four bay windows of the oratory of the Catholic Diocese of Lyon, at the corner of Avenue Adolphe Max and the Cour du Palais épiscopal St-Jean, offer themselves to the gaze and attention of the general public, visitors and residents of Old City of Lyon. They symbolize "everything that connects us"; they echo the singular voices of these places, their stories, their welcome and hospitality, which Denis Prieur's work embodies so well.