"My soul is doubtless very close to circus artists who, like me, write and are only educated by what they have seen."
Gaston Chaissac was drawn to Druidism mixed with traces of fairy tales, as he was by nature, whose natural materials (bones, stones, wood) are possessed of a certain mystery. This pagan theme sythesizes primitivism and modern art, lending his Gaston Chaissac's creations a magical charm unusual in today's art. Combining the harshness of the materials used with a freshness of color, Chaissac constrains the wood and brings out from its perimeter a one-armed character, a sinuous soul, a forest dwarf, a supernatural apparition of a natural environment. All his life, Gaston Chaissac has striven to make use of awkwardness, of the innocence that lies dormant in the art of the marginalized, the mad, and children. Aware of his desire for independence, Gaston Chaissac is able to transgress the laws of painting, to overcome them, to create a double of himself, a somewhat sad brother, a destroyer of received ideas, a woodman which goes beyond the limits assigned to objects by walking the tightrope of dream and reality, where people are defenseless.