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Beautiful exhibition of the Artist painter XJF, oil paintings, engravings on polychrome copper, on the theme of the voyages... of Asia in Japan and in the USA, a moment of dreams in this difficult year of confinement... The Mayor of Chatelaillon Plage Stéphane VILAIN honored us with his presence, accompanied by the President of the France Etats Unis Association of Charente Maritime, Mrs. Marie Christine BASTIN LERAY.

Xavier Sterke settled down in Chatelaillon beach, this painter is originally from the Paris. His father worked in a flour mill, his mother, a florist, started designing bouquets inspired by the ikebana. It was already a question in his life of art and aesthetic composition. At the age of 10, he already loved Picasso and Dali and took courses in ceramic drawing. He will take courses at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Blois. Later on, he will start creating canvases with original formats. He navigates between abstraction and hidden figuration with a palette where ochres, greens and blues predominate.
The artist has won numerous prizes in Paris and abroad, and continues his career with major exhibitions.

Great success at the adventure film festival of La Rochelle in this November 2019...

15 years after its creation, L'Art au Quotidien has positioned itself as a major event of the craft industry in France, thanks to the loyalty of the public and the support of its partners.
More than a showcase for arts and crafts and creation, L'Art au Quotidien is an alchemy of conviviality, creative beauty, encounters, exchanges... Privileged moments at the end of which the visitors fill up with new ideas.
During 4 days, more than 200 artists and craftsmen from all over France present their creations. Some of them work on the spot and make discover the beauty of the gesture which guides their hands, shapes the objects and gives nobility to the everyday life. This event also acts as a revelator of talents, a formidable foot in the saddle for young craftsmen who confront their creations to the public eye.

Alain Vildart

la Nouvelle République.

A Recomposed Figuration.

The colorful figurative geometry expressed in Xavier Sterke's paintings unfolds invisible lines of force that shape an emotional architecture.
The intertwining of forms, far from creating a state of confusion, generates a stimulating harmony. It is with undisguised pleasure that the artist dilates the volumes, distorts the perspectives from their usual functions, and diverts the figurative elements to the advantage of his very personal vision of reality. He thus establishes an introspection of his subjects, seeking to penetrate the revelations both graphic and sensitive that they conceal.

The in-depth research of the relationship between colors intensifies this investigation by bringing him the strength of their emotional potential. His affections for oriental art nourish the richness of his qualities as an informed colorist, without influencing his initial approach. Xavier Sterke directs his creative will towards an atypical poetic aesthetic by managing to dive into the heart of the essence of things.

He undulates, curves, underlines, illuminates, softens flat tints and lights as he pleases, without however destructuring the coherence of his subjects. His writing invents a readable and understandable abstraction that touches our senses and our soul at the same time. Xavier Sterke's works have a fullness and an evocative force that brings together our sometimes scattered feelings, creating a climate of complicity between him and us through the truth of his artistic approach.
The prize "Univers des Arts", which was awarded to him during the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux Arts at the Carrousel du Louvre in 2005, underlines a confirmed talent.

International art critic. Expert en Art Contemporain. Correspondant de Il Pungolo».

To deepen his painting can mean a mysterious and fascinating journey in the meanders of his sensibility, of his search of new expressive models, of new and varied outlets to better express his ideas, his interesting proposals.

It is like an invitation, his, to go beyond the proposed image, immediate, as if to say with tranquility and calm, we can deepen his message, his capacity to imagine, to dream, to go beyond the limits, the concrete borders of the surrounding reality.
All this shines through, shines, shines even in his delicate "still lifes" or "silent natures" as the Master George De CHIRICO preferred to call them.
His painting, as we can admire it, is punctuated by fantastic scansions of signs and chromatic pieces, skilfully composed on the canvas and for all that the visual sense is balanced. The different facets of his paintings are marked and characterized by an admirable creative and expressive power and by a remarkable capacity and mastery of composition.

I will certainly not be denied when I affirm that our artist expresses himself with originality and freshness of images and that he deserves the widest consents on the part of the public and the critic, at international level.
AD MELIORA!!! With esteem. Antonio Malmo. Caivano

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