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 Titre: Perspective on the Marne river
Perspective on the Marne river. The art of representing objects in three dimensions on a flat surface, this is the definition picked up in a dictionnary for the word “perspective”. For me, there is much more than that in the painting in term of dimensions, and furthermore, there are several kind of perspective. For me, painting has five dimensions : drawing which comprises two in itself (horizontality and verticality) to which you can add a third one in the perspective : depth. I will add two more, less visible. First is thickness, which is made by the matter that the painter will leave on the canvas after each movement of his hand. The last one is time, in which the act of waiting is linked to the quality of the choices made to apply the different layers. Thickness and time are intimately linked through the matter itself : oil. From the first layer (diluted) to the different kind of impasto, they will try to captivate the public’s eyes.A perspective, it is also an event or a succession of events that is likely or possible. Even in a landscape, this temporal dimension, optional, seems to rise itself. A perspective, it is also the way to look at things, it is to be on a certain “point of view”, to be under the control of a vanishing point (ligne de fuite in french). A point where the unknown, imagination, lie. My “perspective” on the Marne is a door open to the future. In that way, the river is an invitation to go beyond what is possible, as far as we can, to realise our dreams. (oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm, march 2007) Retour à l'index des archives |
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