Regner French Painter-engraver

This clearing of the subconscious, this rigorous and ruthless look upon ourselves naturally leads to the question of the sacred. The Sacred in REGNER's works appears like a meditation about death:...

REGNER does not ignore humor, as we can see with the satisfied toad which has gorged itself and the finesse of the sly wolf in "La gueule du loup". As we also see in "Le bon vivant", a pasha bird...

In addition, this strange world often describes certain aspects of the everyday psychology that the painter keenly observes. In "Le pot de vin", a difficult bargain pits a cupid-shrew (a genuine...

Of his bizarre characters, we could say, as Pasteur said about Odilon REDON's painted monsters, "they are viable". Despite the fact that they are hybrid organisms, they are coherent beings,...

The soft feminine figures with their radiant honey colors or pure azure are, as well, images of serenity and lucky us if they can save us when, after the hourglass is turned over, we stumble into...

It is as if we lived in an instant of security and illusory tranquility just before the cataclysm. But don't be fooled, those familiar demons aren't what we think they are. We have been led to...

The hundreds of various acts that REGNER offers in his paintings could almost be a series of somewhat fantastic fables, but while fables lead to a moral conclusion, REGNER's work holds us...

REGNER's work -- secret, unclassifiable -- might puzzle the spectator. His monsters, might trouble him, but the viewer should be reassured by the charm of the lovely feminine figures wandering...

Next step, the automatic drawing is meticulously retraced with chalk on the background and traced again with white paint. Finally, shapes and figures are expressed and defined by a subtle work of...

He experimented with all kinds of techniques, though only kept what fit his personal approach. He would begin each new work with sketches drawn automatically, "Preliminary to paint, my drawings...