His latest series, papiers écorchés, is on paper, and art has become abstract. It's no longer the movement of the leaves that interests the artist, but the circulation of air between them. The eye, then, is fascinated by the different paths between the colors.

For Paul Ripoche, "the eye doesn't rest on a detail, on a little something, in an attempt to unravel a mystery. It moves from one space to another, jumps from one color to another, to try to see better, or rather to try to see 'more'."

According to Philippe Brunel, "the flayed papers exude a certain fascination. From a distance, they are works without center or composition. They hint at American abstract expressionism, but a purified expressionism, stripped of its excesses of paint, color and line, where the full has become (almost) empty, all in reserve.

Here, the previously painted paper is torn from its support, flayed, in small pieces". White then appears amidst the color, taking on its full significance. It lets us glimpse the silence of the trees.