Thierry Cheverney depicts a colorful landscape slowly succumbing to the dominance of man and machine. Although seemingly surrealistic and dream-like, Cheverney’s mystical vision of a fantasy world exposes real concerns towards our contemporary perception of nature. Compressing past, present, and future observations of our environment into one spectacular image, Cheverney uses nature as a manifestation of the eternal struggles between good and evil that exist in our modern world. Through colorful, surrealistic visions of the world, Thierry Cheverney critiques the relationship between nature and man. Showing the not so subtle dominance of technology and its violent effects on nature, Cheverney’s representations beg the viewer to contemplate man’s position in the contemporary landscape. Born in Tunisia in 1954, Thierry Cheverney has spent most of his life in France, where he continues to live and work. His work has been widely exhibited throughout the world, including a recent 2012 solo show at Galerie Motul-le, Pleumeur Bodou. France.
John Mc Cord.