Claude Viallat and Franck Chalendard share the same faith in the powers of painting underlying great works. Since 1966, Claude Viallat has been repeating the impression of a generic form declined on the surfaces of supports that are not mounted on stretchers. He has succeeded in creating spaces in which the intensity of colour achieves the fullness of form. Franck Chalendard has embarked on the use of a thesaurus of shapes and motifs accumulated by abstraction. He reuses them by reviving their meanings. These paintings, once more become unicums in which bloom the jubilant sumptuousness of colour and the artist’s inaugurating gesture.