Jean-Jacques Gailliard

After a period spent exploring abstraction, Jean-Jacques Gailliard began, in 1927, a return to a form of figurative art. Although he associated with Picasso and Chirico in Paris, and later with the proponents of ‘constructed abstraction’ from the 7 Arts group in Belgium, he remained free from these influences, producing work imbued with fantasy and esotericism. In *Autosoleil*, he blends geometric forms with realistic elements such as the Eiffel Tower, an eye, a wheel, a robot, and the street layout of the Orsay district at Place d’Iéna. The meaning of the painting remains obscure, though symbolic elements may offer clues: the sun, the eye and the wheel are bearers of light, knowledge and life.

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