The paintings of Jean-Paul Agosti are metaphors for a vision of the garden as an expression of competing forces of order and disorder. Agosti was perhaps the first French painter to explore fractal form, befriending mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in the early 1980s. His paintings are a series of imaginary gardens titled after the gods of Greek mythology. Lyrical and yet formal, Agosti's paintings convey an almost musical visuality as a testament to the artistic possibilities of fractality. He has exhibited throughout Europe, including a large solo museum exhibition at the Musèe de Sens in 1996 and most recently at the Musèe de l'Hospice Saint Roch.

-Susan Condè
curator


Jean-Paul Agosti
34, rue Montant au Palais
89300 Joigny
France