Luminotype III – acrylic, PVC, paper – 2025 – 80×60 cm – © Adagp
Making a canvas without premeditation__
I wanted to address here the signical aspect of my practice. I started this work during the production of the series No Reason. This rather curious title illustrates the following point: there is in art a certain injunction to justify his gesture. I just named the series No Reason to come in counterfoot and naively claim a certain spontaneity and realize a canvas without premeditation, without reflection.
Time passes, I keep working, the result starts to please me. I prefer simple means: monochrome or bichrome tones and a raclette-centered realization or more precisely on the form obtained. I end up trying to complexify the effects of texture, background, I perform a number of tests, successful and less successful until I realize that in the final result it is the form obtained that interests me.
Affirm an aesthetic___
This is where I will contradict what I said at the beginning: I will seek to understand my intention but above all to assert an aesthetic. Which means I'm going to be like setting out the expected criteria. I take this on the positive side, I see it as a certain maturity of the practice of gesture. I can say that the gesture to trace my shapes, I executed it thousands of times.
By force, we touch with a finger what works and what works less. What had started spontaneously, without premeditation, becomes a gesture achieved in any case subjectively is the feeling that I have. We understand how wheelbases, projections, line thickness, background dialogue, color selection etc. work. As I said, we end up understanding what works and what works less. Finally the realization becomes premeditated, thought, thought. On the other hand, the gesture keeps him spontaneity, I never know what will come out.
One obviously thinks of the body: I ask myself the following questions: how to place oneself to perform the gesture, with what angle, what supports, etc.? In these phases, by doing, doing and doing it again becomes like almost a body to body between the canvas and yourself. Believe me, that's really the feeling I have. Obviously in reality, it is rather a duel between oneself and oneself.
On the canvas persists a memory of the gesture___
I used to say "on the web comes to persist a memory of the gesture". One additional aspect I wish to address concerns the temporal aspect. While the gesture is made in a handful of seconds, the canvas benefits from a real relative permanence. This is where the notion of a "memory of gesture" becomes very important.