Once his artistic training was complete, Michel Mouffe lived in 1983 for two years in the Guiette House, built by Le Corbusier in 1926 in Antwerp. There, the young artist honed his sensitivity and his eye, gradually allowing himself to be shaped by all that Le Corbusier’s rigorous architecture had to offer—and by what defines it: silence; balance and harmony of proportions; economy of means; and subtle variations of shadow and light.

During these months of painting, Michel Mouffe, wrapped in silence, paid close attention to the slightest variations of light, to the nuances of its intensity, and to the praise of shadow. It was this silence, together with peace, that Le Corbusier wished to offer to people, as what is most precious in our modern world.

At the end of his residency, Mouffe organized his first exhibition at the Guiette House, presenting the works created during his stay. His canvases are so many invitations to enter the subtle flow of light and color.

For Le Corbusier, architecture is “something you walk through.” Moving within and around architecture is fundamental to understanding it; it cannot be appreciated while remaining static. A silent dialogue is born from this architectural wandering through illuminated spaces.

Thus the large canvases of Michel Mouffe, whose formats echo the proportions of the Modulor, so dear to Le Corbusier, invite us, if we wish to taste their poetry, to be in motion before them. It is by moving slowly from one edge to the other that their chromatic nuances are revealed, in which we feel as though immersed. Each canvas is an opening that leads us toward the intangible.

Preface by Marc Chauveau

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