Last Works, an invitation and a few comments about my work
Par jeff le lundi 19 octobre 2009, 21:40 - Mon travail en cours - Lien permanent
"Communicate" is one of my paintings in oil on
wood, which is among my favourite environment , the feel of wood and its
aptitude to suck the oil in so quickly makes it possible to work quite fast for
an oil painting and the textures can be developed to the infinite, I am trying
here to depict an attempt to communicate between people , or things that have
nothing in common, which is a recurring theme in my work. People wrongly assume
they need to resemble their friends or have points in common to get along when
what wa need and thrive for is mixing with others in as far they are different
and challenge our conceptions ...
"We Idealize Ourselves in Dreams"
is an oil on canvas, quite a large one, which is about games of power, yet
another theme that is dear to my heart, how we can imagine that when we have
established a structure of relationships these are giving us a wrong idea of
what we are, and what we would have dreamed to build as a relationship if power
had not been involved, or, to the contrary, we can cynically see also the dream
that is much more basic of people who thrive for a position in high society
whatever this position might be, thinking that it is better to be the servant
of a king to be the master of our own life... cynical but, human .
"From Outside" is another oil on canvas, which
shows how groups are formed in solidarity to apprehend the unknown, how we find
suddenly that we have something in comon with those we distrusted just the day
before, in order to push back the invasion of what we find strange, or unfit to
our expectations, the irony of this is that the centre of the scene and the
importance given goes to the stranger we want to outcast, thus the fabrication
of martyrs, and so on ...
"Pataphysical King and a Rose" is a palette
painting in oil on canvas, I call a palette painting a canvas which has served
as a palette for another painting, on which i leave remnants of oil to dry and
form thick impasto, and build a picture around, or with them, there are a few
in my works... this one is dedicated to Pascha, who knows who she is, and her
love of pataphysics, the old discipline invented by Rabelais in Gargantua, a
school of thought whose main motto is "Do whatever you please", presented like
a philosophy of the future, and prefiguring the advent of surreal and dadaist
thought. Here, there is a rose, to both represent my present to Pascha and to
link this clin d'oeil to French literature to another symbol of this literature
namely the roman de la rose. As most of my palette painting their execution and
rendering is closer to art brut that , say, a painting in full oil with medium
on a gessoed canvas, of course, so this is a part that forms a group aside in
my work, as a technique, but is fully integrated as far as philosophy is
concerned.
"Anima leaving the scene" is
another oil on canvas representing one of my favourite themes which is the
devastation that the evil or rather the archetypes contained inside human
psyche can produce, leaving the scene on fire and with visible damage both
psychic and physical, the Anima is returning to where she came from , the peace
of our centred personality, and just disappears as she had appeared in the
first place, quite obviously freely referring to CG Jung here, as far as the
anima and archetypes topics are concerned. The fabric of this canvas is
particular and gives it a raw aspect that doesn't appear on a smoother one,
this is part of the raw and savage look of the scene in general .
YOU ARE INVITED to see these pieces in my exhibition and there is a closing event on the 30th of October at the galerie des arts in Blenod les Pont-à-Mousson, in france . If you want to come and talk, well, it's at 6 pm !!! here's the invitation flyer , on which you can also get an idea of my colleagues works : Atek, JP Charles, and OliV


