Over 100 paintings were presented in the exhibition by Bernard Piffaretti (1955, Saint-Étienne), which completely filled the second floor. Piffaretti is a process painter, and this process has not changed since it was established in 1986: invariably, he divides the canvas with a thick vertical colored line as his first step, thereby creating a left half and a right half. An abstract image is painted on one side of the line, indiscriminately. This is then used as a model and reinterpreted like a musical score from memory on the other side. This final step generally completes the painting. Piffaretti’s paintings relate neither to the visible world nor to abstraction. He uses patterns in both saturated and unsaturated colors of infinitely varied styles. The patterns produce a sense of déjà-vu, making them seem extremely ordinary. His work “does not want to prove anything, do anything more, or do anything better,” except, perhaps, to divest the paintings of all content 
and remove impulse by using duplication, in order to show clearly that “painting never represents just painting.”