The stages of his oeuvre

The"surabstreal"period, 1966-73

Surabstreal: SURrealism (invention of images, titles), ABSTract (style adventure), REAL (daily life objects).
As many others, at a certain point abstraction led me to a dead end. I was at a standstill. So I decided to reconcile non-figuration with the subject. Interweaving both trends, that looked great.
G. Collignon, 1978

Collignon may have achieved the inventory of his formal and pictorial vocabulary in the field of pure abstraction. In 1967, without abandoning his broad coloured bands often obeying to a gyratory rhythm, the painter introduces some figuration in his paintings.
J. Hendrickx, 1977

For Collignon, 1967 is an important date : he manages to summarize the components of his research, in the style, the technique and the spirit. It’s a new start and this time, a deliberate return to figuration. However, continuity is still present in his technique: saturated, adjusted, restrained colours, free and autonomous shapes, where the impulse and the lyricism keep on being steered and under control. From that period, Collignon gives himself new pleasure: he tells, he smiles, he teases, he presents the body, its attitudes and its instinct.
J. Parisse, 1977

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