Olivier Gilet
When I left childhood, I started drawing, rather clumsily. Lines, graffiti, scribbles, in a power struggle with the frenzy of the primary forest in which I had been immersed since my early years, in Africa. Drawing, piano, always raw and clumsy, while refusing to learn the technique. Even now, I ask myself the question: was it pride, rebellion or a naive desire to remake the world on a blank page?
A world that has too much memory, too much culture, now it becomes cumbersome and oppressive.
Today's art is not often on the side of real life. Luxury objects for a digital society, with an aging hard drive.
Mnemosyne, mother of the muses, is said to have created language and writing. The contemplated landscape needs neither words nor thoughts, and it has its own structure.
Jimmie Durham (Writings and Manifestos): "More and more things are being contested, refused, questioned in art. Which is always good, I think, always exciting, but it throws us into increasing disarray. And the moment we begin to realize that there is an art industry, with millions of artists, at that precise moment, we realize that we have not the slightest idea of what art could be. And we are afraid that it may be nothing at all. It is impossible to imagine what it could be. And we get more and more agitated, and all sorts of good little ideas are added to each other, almost as if, wading in water, we are waiting for a possible collective solution. And I believe that this situation probably stems from the very strong tradition of questioning art that runs through the entire 20th century."
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View allUn essai sur l'apesanteur • 3 artworks
View allDigital Drawings (Meta-etchings) • 100 artworks
View allCette série, intitulée MetaEtching (ou MétaGravure), me permet d'aborder sous un autre angle ma critique de ce monde actuel dominé par le consumérisme, les jouissances factices et la disparition de la nature et des relations saines avec le vivant.
Landscaping • 10 artworks
View allMetamorphosis • 16 artworks
View allShells • 10 artworks
View allNudes • 7 artworks
View allMagnolia tribe • 9 artworks
View allDe-motivational posters • 4 artworks
View allDionysos drawings • 12 artworks
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Biography
When I left childhood, I started drawing, rather clumsily. Lines, graffiti, scribbles, in a power struggle with the frenzy of the primary forest in which I had been immersed since my early years, in Africa. Drawing, piano, always raw and clumsy, while refusing to learn the technique. Even now, I ask myself the question: was it pride, rebellion or a naive desire to remake the world on a blank page?
A world that has too much memory, too much culture, now it becomes cumbersome and oppressive.
Today's art is not often on the side of real life. Luxury objects for a digital society, with an aging hard drive.
Mnemosyne, mother of the muses, is said to have created language and writing. The contemplated landscape needs neither words nor thoughts, and it has its own structure.
Jimmie Durham (Writings and Manifestos): "More and more things are being contested, refused, questioned in art. Which is always good, I think, always exciting, but it throws us into increasing disarray. And the moment we begin to realize that there is an art industry, with millions of artists, at that precise moment, we realize that we have not the slightest idea of what art could be. And we are afraid that it may be nothing at all. It is impossible to imagine what it could be. And we get more and more agitated, and all sorts of good little ideas are added to each other, almost as if, wading in water, we are waiting for a possible collective solution. And I believe that this situation probably stems from the very strong tradition of questioning art that runs through the entire 20th century."
- Nationality: BELGIUM
- Date of birth : 1954
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- Groups: Contemporary Belgian Artists
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Corpi leggeri, cose mentali, exposition
Thuin, Belgique
Exposition en duo d'Olivier Gilet (peintures, techniques mixtes) et d'André Fromont (photos, images). Le vernissage aura lieu le samedi 19 octobre à partir de 18 heures. L'exposition sera ouverte du mercredi au dimanche de 14 heures à 18 heures. Du 19 octobre au 2 décembre. Welcome...
Exposition en duo : Olivier Gilet et André Fromont Galerié éphémère Thuin du 19 octobre au 1 décembre 2019
Exposition en duo : Olivier Gilet et André Fromont Galerié éphémère Thuin du 19 octobre au 1 décembre 2019
Thuin, Belgique
A rain song 4 - Final version 200/300 cm mixed media on canvas (collages, pencil, print, acrylic and cold wax on canvas)
The rain song 1. Work "in progress". Collages, acrylic, cold wax and sweat on canvas
Vue d'atelier - Studio view
Les vues d'atelier sont appréciées. J'en posterai régulièrement. Celle-ci date de 2016.
Studios views have their fans. i will post some of theme regularly. This one is from 2016.
A propos de ma série "Meta-etching"
L'humour, la dérision et la caricature ont de tous temps servi d'armes contre l'oppression et l'obscurantisme. Daumier, auteur de célèbres caricatures sociales et politiques, créa aussi quelques-uns des plus extraordinaires tableaux du dix-neuvième siècle, trop peu connus. On peut également citer Goya et ses gravures grotesques et grinçantes ou le Belge Félicien Rops et ses illustrations provocantes. Dans ce travail, je me suis également inspiré de cette "belgitude" imprégnée de fantastique et de surréalisme et qui circule allègrement dans le sang des artistes belges depuis si longtemps (Bosch, Brueghel, Mesens et ses collages, etc.).
Cette série, intitulée MetaEtching (ou MétaGravure), me permet d'aborder sous un autre angle ma critique de ce monde actuel dominé par le consumérisme, les jouissances factices et la disparition de la nature et des relations saines avec le vivant.
Burning the midnight oil - After a Sleepless night, working on the 3 Shareholders ------------- Après une nuit blanche, à travailler sur les "3 actionnaires "
Légende de l'image
Géopoétique
Antonio Machado :
Voyageur, le chemin
C'est les traces de tes pas
C'est tout; voyageur,il n'y a pas de chemin,
Le chemin se fait en marchant
Le chemin se fait en marchant
Et quand tu regardes en arrière
Tu vois le sentier que jamais
Tu ne dois à nouveau fouler
Voyageur! Il n'y a pas de chemins
Rien que des sillages sur la mer.
Tout passe et tout demeure
Mais notre affaire est de passer
De passer en traçant
Des chemins
Des chemins sur la mer
tout commentaire, toute remarque n'a plus aucune importance
"Il existe une espèce d'immobilité, ou d'impasse, où voir les choses telles qu'elles sont devient alors l'essentiel, tout commentaire, toute remarque n'a plus aucune importance. Ça fait penser à la grenouille assise au beau milieu d'une mare, sous la pluie qui ne cesse de tomber sur elle. Elle cligne simplement des yeux chaque fois qu'une goutte de pluie la touche, sans jamais modifier sa posture. Elle ne cherche pas à sauter dans la mare ni à en sortir. Cette qualité étant symbolisée par le taureau assis, la grenouille devient donc un taureau assis."
Trungpa
The man in the film
You could be the man in the film
I could be the film
You could be the painter
I could be your portrait
It doesn't matters
What matters is looking
What is the meaning of doing art
'What is the meaning of doing art for you?' A 2009 response to the "meaning of art project" created by Katherine Treffinger http://www.katherinetreffinger.com
SOME VERY CANDID OPINIONS ON THE MEANING
OF DOING ART
1) Doing art is like cleaning. Before cleaning I am
looking carefully, as some dust should be permitted
to stay.
2) Looking (perceiving) is very important. Usually
I am using my eyes, sometimes through a lens. It
creates some distance, and thus some space.
3) Doing art is creating space. Dogs are creating
space and frontiers by urinating, birds are singing,
artists are spreading some art forms in a dangerous
world.
4) I am hungry of beauty, but still cannot define it
fully. That's why I am looking further.
5) While doing art, I am communicating with other
cultures & other times. I am a kind of gardener, &
there are a lot of different plants & flowers.
6) While creating art, I try not to fly away, I try
to be there.
7) Being there.
8) I have some cameras, a computer & a printer & several
big Chinese brushes. Those are my friends & my toys in
this game.
9) I am obsessed by the strange relationships between
the beings & their bodies. So, I am using bodies in my
pictures. Spiritual beings are not easy to paint or
photography.
10) Being there and elsewhere.
11) My best moments in the studio: like a child in nature.
Eating light & colors.
12) What's the most dangerous: to be naked in the studio,
or outside?
13) The studio I am dreaming of: Horseshoe Canyon in
Arizona.
14) There is some ecstatic feeling connected with creation.
But doing art is also a job. The archetypal job.
15) Doing art, yes, is a cleaning job. I love the idea of
cleaning the world with forms & colors...& my brushes are
not big enough...
16) I cannot work in the studio without thinking to all
the other beings being there somewhere & creating &
communicating & trying all together to clean the
world...while letting some dust on the shelves, too...
17) Doing art on a continuous basis is like continuously
coming back to a lost paradise, a native universe.
18) That's it, it's how I feel, in a naked world, without
mask.
Olivier Gilet, Brussels Belgium
Art et nécessité
Il y a nécessité absolue de poursuivre le travail d’une longue lignée d’artistes luttant contre la matérialisation croissante et l’uniformisation culturelle de ce monde ; nous vivons une période de décadence où la spiritualité disparaît.
L’art doit rester cette force quasi anonyme qui « lave l’œil » et permette de retrouver une fraîcheur du regard et de la conscience.
La beauté, la joie, une certaine candeur, restent des outils utilisables dans ce monde artistique envahi par la sinistrose. Comme Tapies l’a bien souligné, la politique, l’activisme et l’intellectualisme ne ressortent pas de la pratique artistique, qui possède ses propres moyens d’insuffler de la vie dans la communauté.
African Buddha
Deux sculptures, deux visages qui ont marqué mon enfance. Un bouddha du nord de la chine, provenant de mon grand-père, et un masque tshokwe ramené du Congo par mon père. En utilisant un logiciel de morphing, j'ai réuni ces deux êtres, reflets de ce monde en cours de métissage et de métamorphose. Ce travail a donné lieu à de nombreuses variations. Le morphing est en vente sur ArtMajeur
Metamorphosis
The world becomes porous, nature, races and genres interpenetrate, everything is diluted, disintegrated and metamorphosed. The series of which I present a work here is called Metamorphosis. It's about continuing my work on the transformation of the world and its excesses. Dilution, confusion, miscegenation, hybridization, artificial intelligence and virtual realities becomes the norm. I approach this with a baroque language, with a mix of practices, mixing digital art and traditional painting. And I remain convinced that coping with these changes with "happy" tools is our only chance to save this world. I believe in the subversive virtues of joy and ecstasy in the Dionysian sense of the term (ex-stasis).This installation of the Metamorphosis series deals with movement and joy (emotion is motion) as principles of transformation.