Oil paint­ings

New York City

New York is a hos­pitable city, when one is alone on hol­i­day. Every­thing is open”, went Delia Ephron’s humor­ous quip. Open your eyes in imag­i­na­tive fan­tasy to this city, as did Alain Godon, and so irre­sistibly, in 2008 and then again in 2012 when he arrived with his can­vases, his oil paints and his brushes: the Statue of Lib­erty redis­cov­ers her youth, taxis fly and lovers find them­selves com­pletely alone in the world…