The artist will submit for this exhibition a monumental piece in tribute to Clamart territory. Highlighting reality, he gets inspiration in the casual, the obvious, the ordinary : by his painting, he amplifies all these moments of everyday life to re-present them, brand new, to our eyes. The young city slicker is found of cinema, fashion, keen on literature and philosophy, and leaves easily his painter suit to try his hand at these disciplines. He often looks stupid, exhilarated on his own, mad against contingency.
It was no longer a matter of desire and choice. It is within this tension that lies its difference from all other images. While imagery is used as a referent, a sign or a symbol, in a close relationship to language, painting, on the other hand, plays with presence.
Beyond words, the concreteness, physicality of painting echoes the immediate, transient feeling of existence. It is there. To me, it is in that presence that lies a sensuous and restless homage to appearances, to the finiteness of shapes, to this silent world of ours to paraphrase Francis Ponge. So many events are inexpressible : the tint of a skin, an odor, the density of a wall, the air between two objects, worry, wonder… Painting enables you to gaze at fresh fixity, and whether you stand up close, far away or very close, it does not tell the same story.
It also enables you to keep quiet, to restrain from the protection of words. The Mona Lisa is just a smiling girl. The pleasure lies in seeing what is there, without ever being able to absorb it, to accept it as it is. Paintings are present, if ever. I download! PDF File kB. CACC on air.
Ressources and medias. I paint commonplace subjects trying to make their presence exist.
