Magazine Tendances

Everyone in Le Touquet knows Godon… or at least his signature.  Here, as elsewhere (mostly in the United States), the artist is not acquainted with impartiality: you either hate him or you love him.  As the founder of “Esperantism”, he looks at the world through the eyes of a child, re-interpreting life with panache and colour.  His palette simply flies away and his scenes of everyday life send you spinning. For several years, Alain Godon has wanted to give back to Le Touquet what Le Touquet gave to him (a first exhibition in the Palais de l’Europe in 1994, a one-man exhibition in the Dorval Gallery two years later, at the museum in 2002 and then at the Fardel Gallery, that was to invite him back several times over the years. In 2001, Léonce Deprez invited him to exhibit at the Assemblée Nationale, a retrospective of one hundred works in the Town Hall in 2004, the publication of the book “Paris-Plage et Godon” in 2007 and, in the same year, the inauguration of the Godon Suite at the Bristol Hotel). In 2009, with Daniel Fasquelle he went on to create the Festival of Le Touquet for aspiring artists, giving young artists the opportunity to be awarded a prize by a high-ranking jury; the prize is no less than a New York exhibition. Today Godon is working on an exhibition which will take place in Miami, with its Art Deco architecture, from 23 February of next year.