Pour saluer Pierre Soulages 2010

Charles Bezie made *Pour Saluer Pierre Soulages* as a tribute to the great French abstract painter. Look at this painting, how it shimmers and shifts! I imagine Bezie in his studio, carefully building up the surface, piece by piece. He’s not just throwing paint around, but methodically applying these dark squares. I feel like I can see Bezie's mind at work, trying to figure out how to make something new out of something old. It’s a dance between intention and accident, control and surrender. It is this surface that is so fascinating. What is it like to touch? What is it like to make? Painters are always talking to each other, across time and space. Bezie’s in conversation with Soulages, but also with all the other artists who have ever tried to capture light and shadow on a flat surface. And now, he’s talking to us, inviting us to join the conversation.