Permanent Exhibitions
Come and discover the exhibition by Christophe Daras at 67 rue Jacquart, 51100 Reims,
from Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 12pm and 1:30pm to 5:30pm. Free entry.
Christophe Daras – February 2026 to February 2027
In addition to its biennials, Palmer & Co each year chooses to showcase local artists by hosting them at its premises in Reims. Through this initiative, the House reaffirms its commitment to the Reims region and its support for local artistic creation, in resonance with its values.
Christophe Daras
From February 2026 to February 2027
Christophe Daras is a painter for whom light and matter are at the heart of emotion. Trained at the École Blot, he has been developing a free and demanding body of work for over twenty-five years, combining oil, acrylic and palette knife techniques. Portraits, figures, animals and abstract compositions echo one another in a constant pursuit of precision, between striking realism and the expressive power of colour. His work resists categorisation, offering an instinctive, deeply expressive painting in which emotion always comes before intention.
While portraiture holds a central place in his work, it is never exclusive. Anonymous figures or famous faces, animals, scenes of everyday life, and abstract paintings come together to form a cohesive whole, unified by the pursuit of a true and resonant emotion. Cultural icons appear stripped of their status, animals become sensitive presences, and abstraction allows colour and material to express themselves beyond narrative, in complete freedom. In the studio as in life, Christophe Daras paints with humility, driven by an inner rigor that blurs the line between art and existence. If art is emotion, then with Daras, emotion becomes art.
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