Proof of the Unreal n°7/19 is a painting by French contemporary artist Guillaume Chansarel, it is part of the Epreuve de l’Irréel series.

In this figurative landscape, a red rectangle with the façade of a Haussmann building on one face, floats in the sky. This type of work, playing with perspective and light, is drawn from Guillaume Chansarel style, lending a realistic effect to his figurative paintings. In this new series, the realism is turned over by the eruption of coloured cubes, as if suspended in the sky.

At the end of 2019, whilst walking around the streets of soon to be locked down Paris, Guillaume Chansarel had a vision of a Lego shaped form. It became the ideal visionary concept for 'City Man': an alternative to confined spaces, allowing one to escape.  The illusion of an ideal vision would become the 'Trial by Unreality' as soon as Parisians' daily life changed at the will of the restrictions, becoming a reference point to the unreality of the current events.

Whilst perfectly set in Guillaume Chansarel’s aesthetic world, the series ‘L'Epreuve de l'Irréel’ marks the beginning of a new creative chapter - mostly influenced by the health crisis - for the one who paints on the printed pages of old books. 

This one-off piece is sold unframed and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.