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Explain/Unveil Today,
painting is my daily activity. Some years ago, painting had gone
along with my scientific activity. I had never given up one in favor of
the
other, thinking that’s two knowledge activities enriching each other.
But science
and art are two distinct ways of knowledge. Science tries to explain
material,
immaterial, living … organizations of our universe, from smallest to
largest,
by discovering elements, structures and activities that organize them.
Art unveils
our “Etre-au-Monde”, by creating objects and representations that
appear
and make visible relationships of coexistence we develop with our
environment. With two distinct purposes, explanatory for science,
unveiling for
art, these two ways of production and creation have in common to define
what is
beyond visible and common perceptions. My painting combines representation and abstraction. Canvases and papers
are designed and produced from pictorial objects like things, landscapes,
animals, faces. So, my painting has a figurative dimension. But space of canvas
and paper, what is done, are more important. My painting doesn't erase pictorial
objects used, even if it aims for unveiling by creating a world in
itself; So, my painting has an abstract dimension. And maybe, I would like paint
and compose from anything. The validity of the result is an emergence which depends
on the process of creation and the value of the composition; By composition, I
mean something that appears like an organized whole. Successful works are those
for which realization prevailed over the initial project. Maybe my painting is an
anti-project. Art can’t be reduced to its conceptual stage; It needs the
materiality of realization. Until the 2000s, my used formats, dominated by the
square, ranged from 60.60 to 120.120. From the 2000s, I use small format, an
exercise that remains perilous. Four sets Drawings, canvases, papers can be presented in many ways, by date of
production, by techniques used, etc. It can be presented by pictorial objects used,
in limited number. But It’s not a partition that results from this last classification,
because a production can associate several pictorial objects. Despite that, I propose
four sets: Animality / Humanity, Object / Without Object, Fruit / Flower, City
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