In his artistic work, Gustave Didelot imagines a ‘World of painting’ a kind of utopian, benevolent parallel universe, inspired by both artistic and personal references.  This environment of gleaming colours features characters who evolve from one work to the next, although still with the same simplified mask-like faces with their fixed expression.  His recent paintings present non-gendered characters in buffoon costume peacefully going about their daily activities – gardening, festivities, rest, games.  Playfulness, a key theme of this new series, is echoed in the scenography of the exhibition.  As in a video game, the artist has designed a circuit which refashions the building’s logic and offers life-sized rewards to surprise those know how to uncover them.