Remy Hysbergue was born in Valenciennes, France in 1967. Hysbergue, a young French painter, works in series, approaching each one with a clean slate, energy and freshness, each series addressing the essence of painting, the intelligence of paint itself, the texture, the surface, the mode of paint application. He never creates many paintings per series, never wanting to repeat himself.

Once he delves deeply into the painterly and pictorial dialogue of the series, he ends the dialogue having understood its issues. Hysbergue has been working in acrylic on PVC panel--a smooth plastic composition, sparkling white, surface--for the past two years, following a period of time working on wood and paper in the ‘90s. The artist prefers a rigid window-like, mirror-like surface to enable the possibility of wide-ranging applications of paint, eschewing traditional brushwork on canvas. He puts two layers of white gesso on the panels to prepare them for the paint. What ties the series together is his love of paint and its nuances as it traverses the surface.

Hysbergue has been working in series since the ‘90s, using acrylic on white Komacel PVC panels. The surface offers the artist a rigid, non-reflective ground on which to push and pull his paint with all manner of application, from squeegee to syringe to trowel. The thread that ties the series together is that of the artist’s explorations into the range of paint, its intelligence, its myriad possibilities; the application of paint; the use of color at once subdued and wild, his concern for the void and the bright whiteness of the surface, which seems to emit light.

Hysbergue’s use of series is a conscious and clear decision. He poses problems for each group of paintings and concludes a series when he has solved the problems posed, thus keeping the paintings fresh and edgy.

Often titles suggest the artist’s thinking in creating the series, or refer to its formal elements, at other times they might be a play on words, a verbal equivalent to the visual activity of the painting. In his paintings, the artist is looking for visual connections, a bridge which unites contemporary art to painting of this century, as well as to the stimulation of “new graphic design,” and fashion.