Based in Vienna, French painter Nicolas Jasmin (b. 1967)

‘Adler cycle’ series can be interpreted as lapidary poetry, color studies, secret messages or abstract instructions.

By making their own associations by cross-reading the word applied and removed in layers to the canvas or gessoed burlap, viewers decide for themselves whether to see or read the painting.

The act of reading disrupts the process of contemplation.

Each in the series combine four words with four corresponding color, usually taken from the 1700 color sample chart of the Adler paint production company.

His work has been exhibited at  Belvedere21, Museo Picasso Málaga, Croy Nielsen and Kunstverein Hannover.

www.nicolasjasmin.com