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Tropiques • 11 artworks
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Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere[...]
Familiar with the peaceful vegetation of the landscapes of Ile-de-France, moved by the more austere vegetation of the Breton moors, in love with the dry and perfumed garrigues of the Mediterranean, I was overwhelmed during a stay in the West Indies by the exuberance, the luxuriance of the tropical flora. The abundance, the superimpositions, the unknown shapes of the leaves, the extreme colors and the variety of the design of the exotic flowers which, like multicolored birds, delight the green of the palms.
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
I went for long walks in the hot and humid thickness of these still primitive forests, on the thick sides of the volcano, under the canopy of the vast banana plantations where the sun plays between the giant palms. I drew at the foot of the immense trees with the trunks of cathedral buttresses, the wet foliage, the deep mosses, the bright flowers or the monstrous fruits... everything became a challenge. Back in the studio, I took up the forms and colors of this powerful nature like the vocabulary of a new language to organize the surface of the canvas in an almost abstract form: obliques of the slope of the palms, more or less tight latticework of branches and roots, sinuosity of lianas, colored growths of flowers or fruits here and there, and often, the blue of the sky or the water and the yellow of the sun
These are my "Tropics".
Skyes and Clouds • 10 artworks
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In contrast to the opaque evidence of the ground and its immovable permanency, the sky offers a space[...]
In contrast to the opaque evidence of the ground and its immovable permanency, the sky offers a space of possibilities, transparencies, transitions and abstract depths. It's a theater of metamorphoses and illusions, where time draws and erases the uncertain, shifting shapes of the great clouds. The temptation is great to inscribe their traces on the immobility of a single drawing, to interweave spaces, and like reflections on a glass pane, to superimpose other horizons... and sometimes the desire to introduce some geometric outline, pure and simple lines into the teeming complexity of the clouds to architect the whole.
paintings and pastels around nature and history • 10 artworks
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Painting the bulge of hills, a few bushes in the cool of forests, drawing the swelling of sap in the[...]
Painting the bulge of hills, a few bushes in the cool of forests, drawing the swelling of sap in the veins of leaves, following the slow swelling of a cloud with a brush, all express my urban nostalgia for spaces that are not very humanized...
The relationship between nature and man. Today, the preservation of what little remains of the raw ocean is the order of the day. Man is the main agent of erosion of spontaneous forces. Reverse the balance and reclaim nature's strength. Where man's trace was still fragile and erasable. Rediscover reversibility. Paths in the fields, trails in the forest that can be reabsorbed into plant growth in just a few years. Rediscover the first milestones of our origins. Recreate the first breakthroughs, the first penetrations, humanization by exellence. Find and redraw the first square lines of land appropriation. Rediscover Romulus' furrow beneath Rome...
Cézanne sought behind the disorder of appearances the hidden structures of nature. Now we find the mental structures that man has superimposed on those of nature. The interweaving of the real and the virtual.
The aesthetics of the cut, the furrow, the slit where another space begins, a strange depth.
The relationship between nature and man. Today, the preservation of what little remains of the raw ocean is the order of the day. Man is the main agent of erosion of spontaneous forces. Reverse the balance and reclaim nature's strength. Where man's trace was still fragile and erasable. Rediscover reversibility. Paths in the fields, trails in the forest that can be reabsorbed into plant growth in just a few years. Rediscover the first milestones of our origins. Recreate the first breakthroughs, the first penetrations, humanization by exellence. Find and redraw the first square lines of land appropriation. Rediscover Romulus' furrow beneath Rome...
Cézanne sought behind the disorder of appearances the hidden structures of nature. Now we find the mental structures that man has superimposed on those of nature. The interweaving of the real and the virtual.
The aesthetics of the cut, the furrow, the slit where another space begins, a strange depth.
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