CHRISTOF MONNIN was born in Montbéliard in 1968. A self-taught painter, he exhibited for the first time at the age of 17 and won his first prize. A fan of very luminous painting, he offers us a work where his palette is full of reds blending excellently with golden yellows. Working most often with a knife, he gives his forms a certain violence, which results in his work being exceptionally realistic, as if the south wind were caressing his canvases, from the stems of his flowers to the tops of his trees. Monnin, a perfectionist at heart, never stops searching in order to deepen his work. This is why, on his easel, different styles of canvases intersect, but they all have one thing in common: the hand that created them does not betray the painter's stroke of genius.