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\u00c0 Paris, la Galerie Gagosian consacre une exposition aux \u0153uvres tardives de Francis Bacon. Trois toiles suffisent \u00e0 mesurer la puissance intacte d\u2019un peintre qui, toute sa vie, aura cherch\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00ab rendre le cri humain \u00bb. Du 11 avril au 30 mai 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Francis Bacon dans son atelier de la rue de Birague, Paris, 1980. Photo : Edward Quinn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Dublin en 1909, chass\u00e9 de chez lui \u00e0 16 ans par un p\u00e8re militaire en raison de son homosexualit\u00e9, Francis Bacon construit son \u0153uvre dans une forme d\u2019exil permanent. Berlin, Paris, puis Londres : ces d\u00e9placements fa\u00e7onnent une vision du monde instable, marqu\u00e9e par la violence des rapports humains. Tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t, il d\u00e9truit ses propres toiles, refusant toute facilit\u00e9. Sa vie, travers\u00e9e d\u2019exc\u00e8s et de drames dont la mort de son ami George Dyer, nourrit une peinture o\u00f9 la chair devient le lieu d\u2019une v\u00e9rit\u00e9 brute. \u00c0 sa mort en 1992, il s\u2019impose comme une figure majeure, capable de r\u00e9inventer la figuration \u00e0 rebours de toute narration.<\/p>\n

Les \u0153uvres des ann\u00e9es 80 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es \u00e0 la galerie Gagosian, rue de Castiglione \u00e0 Paris, prolongent une recherche amorc\u00e9e d\u00e8s les ann\u00e9es 1950, notamment avec la s\u00e9rie des Man in Blue<\/em>. Dans Man in Blue VII<\/em> (1954), expos\u00e9 \u00e0 la Biennale de Venise, Francis Bacon enferme d\u00e9j\u00e0 une silhouette masculine dans une cage spatiale, sur fond sombre oscillant entre bleu et noir. Cette figure anonyme inspir\u00e9e d\u2019un homme d\u2019affaires crois\u00e9 dans un bar incarne une solitude moderne, presque clinique. Le d\u00e9cor est r\u00e9duit \u00e0 une armature verticale, l\u2019espace devient une contrainte. Tout est d\u00e9j\u00e0 l\u00e0 : isolement, tension, d\u00e9formation.<\/p>\n

Ce rapport \u00e0 l\u2019espace atteint une intensit\u00e9 rare dans les \u0153uvres tardives expos\u00e9es chez Gagosian. Francis Bacon ne peint pas des lieux, il construit des dispositifs. Les figures sont plac\u00e9es dans des structures g\u00e9om\u00e9triques : cubes, cercles, lignes… qui agissent comme des cages mentales. L\u2019espace est frontal, th\u00e9\u00e2tral, souvent vide, mais charg\u00e9 d\u2019une pression invisible.<\/p>\n

\u00abJe veux donner la sensation sans le proc\u00e9d\u00e9 de la sensation.\u00bb Francis Bacon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gilles Deleuze d\u00e9crivait cette peinture comme une mani\u00e8re de rendre visibles les forces. Ici, ces forces passent par l\u2019espace lui-m\u00eame. Dans Study from the Human Body\u2014Figure in Movement<\/a><\/em> (1982), le corps semble suspendu dans une bo\u00eete transparente, pris dans un jeu de reflets instables inspir\u00e9s des d\u00e9compositions de Eadweard Muybridge. L\u2019espace fragmente, d\u00e9double, d\u00e9soriente.<\/p>\n

Dans Man at a Washbasin<\/a><\/em> (1989-1990), l\u2019espace se referme. La sc\u00e8ne devient presque \u00e9touffante. Le corps vo\u00fbt\u00e9, proche des figures sculpt\u00e9es par Auguste Rodin, semble absorb\u00e9 dans une architecture minimale. Les tonalit\u00e9s grises accentuent cette impression d\u2019enfermement int\u00e9rieur.<\/p>\n

Depuis les fonds fluides et color\u00e9s des ann\u00e9es 1950 jusqu\u2019\u00e0 l\u2019aust\u00e9rit\u00e9 des \u0153uvres tardives, Francis Bacon n\u2019a cess\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9purer son langage pour atteindre une forme de sensation pure. \u00ab Une sensation vive, violente, au plus pr\u00e8s du syst\u00e8me nerveux \u00bb : la formule pourrait r\u00e9sumer cette exposition. 30 ans apr\u00e8s la r\u00e9trospective du Centre Pompidou en 1996, elle rappelle que chez Francis Bacon, l\u2019espace est l\u2019instrument m\u00eame du mouvement, et du vivant.<\/p>\n

> En savoir plus sur l’exposition Francis Bacon chez Gagosian<\/a><\/p>\n

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