{"id":2248,"date":"2026-01-22T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/?page_id=2248"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:11:13","slug":"frederic-desailly-artiste-contemporain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/frederic-desailly-artiste-contemporain\/","title":{"rendered":"fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric desailly \u2013 contemporary artist and founder of DF-ABSTRACT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading seo-hidden\">fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric desailly \u2013 contemporary artist and founder of DF-ABSTRACT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric desailly is a french contemporary artist developing the geometric art project DF-ABSTRACT. his work explores structure, visual transformation, and the construction of an autonomous abstract language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>his research investigates the primacy of structure as a foundational principle of visual creation, at the intersection of contemporary abstraction and a systemic approach to visual language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for a long time, the image functioned as a space of representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>landscapes, fragments of reality, photographic compositions, an intuitive research practice, sometimes aesthetic, sometimes documentary, yet insufficient to translate certain internal tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gradually, the question shifted from what is seen to what is felt before seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>reality, too legible, became an obstacle. form needed to emancipate itself from subject matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the first ruptures emerged: repetitive structures, deliberate imbalances, the erasure of reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>certain works , now retained as milestones, bear witness to this transition. they no longer represent; they resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DF-ABSTRACT emerged from this shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a practice in which the image illustrates nothing, narrates nothing, but exposes forces: tensions, limits, ruptures and resonances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"translation-block\">each <em>evocatio<\/em> derives from an autonomous protocol, without narrative and without imposed symbolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this work does not seek immediate adhesion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it proposes a silent experience, sometimes unsettling, where geometry becomes language and constraint becomes material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>through DF-ABSTRACT, fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric desailly constructs an autonomous geometric language articulated around a vectorial alphabet, formal families, and rules of transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>his work is part of the landscape of contemporary french abstract art, through the production of original works and limited fine art editions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric desailly \u2013 artiste contemporain et fondateur de DF-ABSTRACT Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Desailly est un artiste contemporain fran\u00e7ais d\u00e9veloppant le projet d\u2019art g\u00e9om\u00e9trique DF-ABSTRACT. Son travail explore la structure, la transformation visuelle et la construction d\u2019un langage abstrait autonome. sa recherche explore la primaut\u00e9 de la structure comme principe fondateur de la cr\u00e9ation visuelle, \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2248\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df-abstract.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}