His painting

Etienne Gros paints fragmentary anatomies, truncated bodies, seemingly separated from any relationship with all that is physical and physiognomy. But these bodies, their sides, their pelvises, their knees - as isolated as they may be from the bodily architecture, as if captured instantaneously in an obscure fight - concentrate and liberate mysterious forces successively.
Manipulator of matter, the artist uses the technique of marouflage, applying to each canvass a thick sheet of paper which lives and moves chemically on contact with acrylic paint.

Extract from a text by Eric Verneuil