French painter Pierre Solage dies at the age of 102

On this day, the death of the French painter was reported Pierre Solage, At the age of 102 years. This was confirmed by Alfred Paquiment, head of the museum that bears the artist’s name in the southern French city of Rodez, of which he was born.

The artist, one of the main names in French contemporary art, was distinguished primarily by the use of black in his works, and since then has devoted himself to exploring the various reflections of light on this tone. Thus, he invented a technique called outrenoir (Beyond Black), reveals a kind of luminosity above the darkness.

“I realized that black was no longer a color in my drawings, but a state of mind. I invented this word because I wanted to go beyond just the visual or plastic aspect. For me, the important thing in black is not the visual, but the experience. Black shakes all our emotions and memories. Black manages to reach our interior that other colors never reach,” via an interview with El País, from Spain, in 2014.

Art critics have associated it with informalism, abstract expressionism, or lyrical abstraction, but He claimed that he did not feel integrated into any artistic “school”, except in outrenoir.

“It’s sad news, I just spoke to his widow, Colette Solage,” Alfred Buckweman, an old friend of the artist, told AFP.