Since 1985, Alain Huck has been exploring a variety of concerns: man's relationship to nature, the dialectic between autobiography and history, the autonomy of matter and that of language. These thoughts take shape through large charcoal drawings, landscapes of ashes or complex scenes juxtaposing multiple images.

Fed by recurring literary references, Huck's paintings, sculptures and installations also express the artist's own introspective act. Twists inflicted on language reflect a distrust of the power of language; the ambivalent exaltation of nature resonates with an environmental concern.

Through Huck's example we ultimately understand that the work of an artist is made to visually state its relationship to the world while tempting to reach the universal experience.

- David Lemaire