No. 14 (Painting), 1961, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
“Apollo may be the God of Sculpture. But in the extreme he is also the God of Light and in the burst of splendor not only is all illuminated but as it gains in intensity all is also wiped out. That is the secret which I use to contain the Dionysian in a burst of light.”
Xavier Veilhan, born in 1963 and currently living and working in Paris, studied successively at the École Nationale Supérieure des Art Décoratifs in Paris (1982-1983), the Hochschule der Künste (Art University) in Berlin (under Georg Baselitz) and the Centre Pompidou’s Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques (1989-1990), run by Pontus Hultén.