The jungle. The desire to delve into the thickest, most secret, deepest recesses of it to capture the "Gold and Night" with his brushes.
Bruno Gadenne follows his course by immersing himself. Often, during the winter months, he sets off the jungles of America and Asia. He flees the greyness that deadens nature and colour in favour of forested cathedrals carpeted with decaying leaves and rivers where light rains down. He ventures forth armed with machete, hanging tent, GPS and enough bread and peanut butter to last the adventure. As a child, he remembers spending days dreaming about Italo Calvino's "The Baron in the Trees" and learning about plants with this father, who was a scientist. That gave him the necessary élan to take on his expeditions. He knows that nothing can happen to him. He has no fear of snakes or alligators. The only thing he fears is poachers. The further into the jungle he ventures, the more he feels at home. Wide-eyed, the painter becomes a "jaguar man".
— Text by Ariane Bavelier, Associate editor in Chief at Le Figaro. Read the full text in the press release below
