A new "travel"

Since this summer, I didn't managed to begin new canvases.

For those who don't know how I work, it is sufficient to understand that I follow two steps when I'm painting. The first step is dedicated to the architecture of my work, the geometric base of it, and only after, I begin the "colour" step.

So, since this summer, I was completly stopped after the first step. I could not begin the "colour step", probably because I was looking for something more powerfull, but I didn't want to leave the poetic aspect of my "old" and soft (maybe too soft ?) colours.

This is my first "new" painting, or the first one that I think I can show : Less painted cells, but in a more intense way...

I don't know why, but while I was making this painting, I was thinking to the Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, and to the powerfull touches of clear colors which he put on his paintings... Giverny : the name of what could be a new "set"?

Tribute to Cruz-Diez at the "Espace Meyer Zafra"

If you appreciate the kinetic art, and more still if you ignore it, even if you do not understand it, I advise you a very beautiful expo devoted to the Venezualian painter Carlos Cruz-Diez.

With few but remarkable works, not necessarily of large sizes, we enter in the very particular universe of this Master of the kinetic abstraction. Works worthy of a museum.

It is the spectator, while moving in front of the work, who makes the mixture of the colors at every moment to discover a new vision of the object.

Espace Meyer Zafra
4 rue Malher
75004 Paris (France)
+33 1 42 77 05 34
Open from monday to saturday : 11AM to 7PM
and the sunday 3PM to 7PM

Salon d'Automne deferred

As opposed to what I had announced in my blog, the "Salon d'Automne" will not take place this year in the Garden of Tuileries. It is deferred to December, in a place which was not specified yet...

The artists, who were delighted to be able to present their work in this place of the center of Paris, are of course very disappointed. But a career is fortunately not played on this exhibition !

New information will follow.

Inspiration

Tuesday evening, I was wandering on the Quays of the Seine on the Levallois-Perret side when I saw a building under demolition. A striking but rather rare vision in Paris: the intimate encounter of a concrete building and the cranes. Very graphical but yet very beautiful. A stripped building exposed to the inquisitive eyes of the pedestrians, offering surreal stairs with no starting point but endless possible ending points...

The next morning, I went back to take pictures. It's when I understood why I like the vision in the first place. The picture contains the tension forces I used in my own paintings, the same types of camaieu grays, and the overall feeling given by the contrast between the architecture-driven rigor and the hazard-driven poetry.

Dan Flavin at the "Musée d'Art Moderne" of Paris : Don't try to understand, just have good feelings...

It is all what I like...

The Museum of Modern Art of Paris (France) proposes since June 6th a review of the work of Dan Flavin. I went there only today, at this beginning of September.

Dan Flavin is a member of the American Minimal Art of the 60' and 70'.He only use the light as basic material. Neons of various dimensions and various tones, the light of which conjugates, bounces on the white walls, modifies the perception of tthe space.

If some works are relatively difficult to encircle, the exhibition in general possesses a strong poetic power. To convince oneself of its interest, it is enough to cross the glance amazed by the children who discover that having been bathed in a completely green space, the corridor that they had previously seen "white" is as by magic become "pink".

The light is everywhere, sometimes brilliant, sometimes completely subtle, dicreet.
Then it is enough to follow the atmosphere, as in the works of Olafur Eliason, without trying absolutely to understand. To feel, just to feel. Because the contemporary art, as opposed to what one too often reads, is - in any case for me - just to let itself go, to have the open mind, to dream, but not too much to intellectualize.

Dan Flavin, une rétrospective
June 9th > October 8th 2006
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Estival pause...

Not many posts these last weeks on my blog...

It is time to go to reload the eye of new lights, paddles dew, cordial twilights, milky skies, dazzlings, and fresh shades.

With very soon!! I will be back at the end of August.