Pinxit is a short-form program dedicated to painting, designed to train the eye and explore the hidden meanings behind what the artwork reveals to us.

The program reflects on the way we look at artworks and seeks to define a new visual grammar for their presentation on screen.

Behind the conventional elements of the Napoleonic legend, what emerges is Géricault’s true interest. And it is neither the Egyptian campaign nor even Napoleon himself…

The apparent simplicity of this early work conceals a whole symbolic universe, inherited from Antiquity and characteristic of the academic artists of the Belle Époque…