“gigon’s pictures are often qualified as catastrophic, even morbid or bewildering. michel gigon’s art is resolutely religious and christian. this fact signifies and implies that a painter can dedicate himself totally to service of his faith. in doing so he does not give up his own personality, as is often insinuated, since it is precisely through it that both the visions and their representations are made possible. simply putting all his strength, all his torment and all his joy in his work, he esteems that the whole of what he is, feels and thinks can find its unity only in god. god in no case demands the sacrifice of the thousand particularities that constitute an individual, but their subordination to a superior order capable of evaluating them according to their true hierarchy. having said this -and there again, contrary to what one is accustomed to think, and in the case of artists such a fact is evident- a person does not belong less to his time because hi is a believer. to the contrary even, it is through his characteristics as a man of such or such an epoque that he finds his own way (leading him) to god.” jil silberstein author and poet, extract from his monograph of michel gigon.