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Olivier Gilet

Bussière-Badil, France
Artist (Digital Arts, Painting)
Born 1954
This world, which we have unraveled at length and with dismal fierceness, it is now incumbent on us to reweave it with patience, respect and humility, and why not, with lightness and humor

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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