224 pages Text(s) by Alexandre Latscha, Isabelle de Maison Rouge 28.5 x 22.5 cm Language: French, English Hardcover First edition Publisher: Lienart, co-published with Hangar 107, Rouen 2026
Gesture is a monograph on Romain Froquet, a French artist born in 1982 who mixes abstract art, urban art and ethnic influences. His lines follow flows, links and movements, and his colour is vibrant and forceful. The book, published by Lienart with Hangar 107 in Rouen, covers more than twenty years of work: drawing, painting, installations and site-specific interventions in France and abroad.
It starts from motorway interchanges. Froquet works from photographs of them, and the line is how he makes visible the roads that link people. His references are Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The essays by Alexandre Latscha, director of the PDP Gallery, and Isabelle de Maison Rouge, art historian and critic, read the work through that line.
