1983

Denis Godefroy exhibits the Minoirs at the Françoise Palluel gallery in Paris, rue Quincampoix.

Denis Godefroy's ethics are based on a triple renunciation: renunciation of colour, which is sensuality, of the line, whose accents are the expression of an individual sensitivity that the ascetic approach intends to master, and of figuration, since appearance is only a mask plastered on the "true reality", which alone deserves attention. Here we pass from art to the art of living. To an art of living with little. Going back in time, it is the ethics of the monks of Citeaux (12th century) which is now of some help to us. Cistercian Godefroy? »

Georges Duby, Soulages, Cahiers du MNAM, 1981-1983