While we carefully select the perfect filter on Instagram and work on positioning ourselves in a particular light our kids are doing the same, but not in the way you think. Colorfull flowers, animals furs as playfull figures surrounding and invading the human figure as a hope.Adults spend a lot of time carefully crafting their reputation, but it may come as a surprise that young kids do too. Appearance, identity, the subject is elsewhere, beyond representation. Elsewhere, an insulating invading space, of almost monochrome colors, enveloping the subject, the background and the figure becoming entangled with a sort of melancholy. The gesture erasing the eyes transforming the face in an effigy . From time to time a thick gestures of paint paste, traces pink or black impasto, symbolic on a deliberately very fine, airy and flat material. Combining intimism with hyper-mediated production, abstraction and figuration, the gesturality of pasta and the almost watercolored descriptive highlights the construction assembly of various faces, various aspects of someone. Painted as a collage in the artwork it creates a particular spatiality, enhancing the geology of the construction and the mutating aspect of someone as well. There is something pathetic about the masks which are like “capable of anything”. Mask is something, a form, that returns through cultures and ages and survives its own death. The masks, here are made as pseudo-collages ( “pretended” cut collage but painted) The mask is a recurring motif, symptom, anachronistic displaced thing. A theme as the hybridization of commercial and popular images drawn from the media and copy-paste for the realization of portraits such as evocations. In my paintings, the eyes are most often worked or unworked if you prefer.
The subject of my artworks is existentialist portrait. I live in Brussels, I am a painter and painting teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts.
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