Artistic approach

During his professional activities in the aeronautics sector, Nadeau discovered that he had things to say, to share and that his job at the time did not allow him to do so, at least not in the way he wishes. After a period of reflection and questioning, he made the decision to reorient himself by adopting the status of artist, choosing photography as his medium.

Chaos is a recurring theme in his work. Subject that magnetizes him because of its omnipresence and its paradoxical essence. His images created by his photographic shots are both defined and confusing. Sometimes realistic and recognizable, sometimes indescribable and mysterious. Fascinated by unexpected discoveries, he practices the art of serendipity; revealing to him scenes that reveal the images in a random and spontaneous way that they covet for his signature productions.

It's all in everyone's perception.

Nadeau prints his photographic images on museum quality media. He takes care to project them in such a way as to open up different presentation options by making rotation mechanisms, thus creating a work that can be perceived from different angles. As soon as he activates the camera's shutter, Nadeau knows and makes sure his framing is on point. It leaves no room for the intruder who could enter the image. Cropping is excluded from his process.

For the artist, the quest for perfection is a central element of his art. From the capture of the image to the final production of its print, he refines the textures, adjusts the vibrancy of the colors, balances or unbalances the contrasts. Before printing, he lets the work mature for a while. It is during this period that the work dictates his ultimate form of incarnation. Color choices should contrast, warm versus cool or light versus dark. In the composition of his works, he looks first and foremost at the questioning or interpretation that forms and details can arouse in the eyes of his spectators. For Nadeau, nothing is prepared to create. Everything materializes in the present moment with a large dose of observation under different shots.

These main influences come from two worlds: the world of science and the world of the arts. Albert Einstein is one of the scientists for whom Nadeau has great respect, as much for his scientific work as for his philosophical views. Salvator Dali is for him THE painter of the 20th century who has and still arouses; the strange, the mysterious, the chaos. And, in photography none other than the photographer Yousuf Karsh for having photographed many characters who have marked modern history around the world. There is also Michel Levin, for whom style inspires Nadeau in his figurative niche.

Nadeau's work is part of the 21st century era where the human being must decenter himself to welcome the other without prejudice, without certainty and become aware of the existence of the absolute relativity of a universe, sometimes powerful, sometimes fragile, which governs the natural laws of life.