Joël BESSE (born 1951) Composition, 1998 Acrylic on folded and braided paper. Monogrammed and dated lower right. 30 x 30 cm Provenance : Galerie Claude Dorval, Paris. "Surfaces crumble and regroup, turbulence bound together by the dramatic, wholehearted gaze and experience of the body and an inner struggle. Gestures that seek each other out and regroup, surges and revivals, latent storms. Joël Besse paints the disarray, the shredded, the 'bottomless'; he fixes spinning ideas." (Jean-Louis Vincendeau, Joël Besse, Itinéraire, 1991) "Folding generates its own form, texture and architecture, creating space. Acrylic-impregnated papers are cut and folded with the precision of a ritual." (Jean-Louis Vincendeau, Joël Besse, Plis et replis, 2001)