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regards
charcoal on canvas, 100 x 200 cm
In my visual work, I like to allow inspiration/influence from literature and especially music, the abstract art form par excellence. While working on my recent series REGARDS, I permanently played a composition for piano by Olivier Messiaen in my studio: Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (1944). In doing so, I was not concerned with the religious-programmaticality of that penetrating opus, but with the purism of sound, the stillness, the serene sonority of the solo instrument. Hence my choice of austere charcoal (on paper or canvas), to the exclusion of any colouring. From the outset, I allowed in each work the tension between abstracting and suggesting formal elements (a landscape can also be abstract, and vice versa), between imagination and realism, between stillness and movement. In doing so, I preferred to avoid design that could be decidedly literal.
The power of suggestion, of that which is not immediately visually imposed, is often stronger.
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