Grande figure

"When I was a shepherd, I slept outside and looked at the moon. I imagined that it was populated by people who looked like those in my paintings."

Labelled an eccentric and a visionary, Anselme Boix-Vives was driven by a deep-rooted pacifist utopian dream, to which his Plans for Peace bear witness. These publications and letters to save the world were written in phonetic Franco-Spanish script. Like his writings, his paintings celebrated a world teeming with living forces. Surrounded by a verdant plant decor, this supernatural figure combines human and zoomorphic features. The small touches of paint applied to large areas of solid colour create a sense of vibration and heighten the sense of a fertile and mysterious profusion.