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Works on Paper or the Anti-Paintings "My drawings are not drawings but documents. You must look at them and understand what's inside..." Antonin Artaud. "Entanglement means that existing decorations were negligible at the momentof the layout of a new image." Lascaux by G. Bataille. As in each sentence, there is almost always: subject, verb, complement...The artistic language is not an exception to the rule, it is built, structured and perceived in the breadth of all our knowledge and our prejudices-visual, social and cultural. It is therefore essential to destroy and to mistreat these rules and these structures so as to make the artistic language bring back its own essence its own principle, its very substance!Works on paper are included in the time of the painting process, they stem from chance and encounters with images, colors, variations, transparencies, revolts, poetry and dreams. They are sometimes taken up again after several years of silence, they grow old, they catch a sheen, they destroy themselves by overcharge and sometimes they are revived miraculously. They resemble the geological landscapes-stratified, jostled, assaulted by time. They are never finished, and endlessly metamorphose themselves at the eye of the attentive witness. Images superpose, match each other or annihilate themselves inside of chaotic spaces which endlessly vibrate towards a perpetual destiny. They exist intrinsically like as many self-portraits, with their real presence-physical, sensual, imaginative, macabre, intellectual, plastic, cultural, mystical, affective, sanguine and libidinous. They often surprised me because of
their outrageous liberty, a bit like sketches that would sleep to the inmost depths
of the self and that would rise spontaneously, ephemeral, after winters of larval
status. Companions of work, companions of paint, accompanists of life, they pose
here the traces and the support of the magical and fairy voyage of the artist.
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