Once upon a time...
My relationship with art is ingrained in my DNA and dates back to my birth.
Ever since my childhood, I remember drawing, coloring, and even sculpting ephemeral figures in the clay soil freshly plowed by my father.
I have always been passionate about it, and have explored almost every artistic discipline as an autodidact (oil painting, acrylic painting, glass painting, sculpture, mixed media, collage, metalwork, woodworking, stonework, etc.).
Analyzing my multidisciplinary journey, I have never been able to flourish artistically because I always had in my mind the presence of a well-defined multidimensional universe, which I believed to be fanciful, too complicated, and impossible to create... Until today!
The starting point...
The starting point was a visit to the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in Barcelona, where I was amazed by the architect Antoni Gaudí's work on lines, curves, volumes, and light.
Gaudí developed a unique style, characterized by the use of curves and bright colors, drawing inspiration from the plant, mineral, and organic forms of nature.
As I gazed at the curves and the play of light, I was struck by the similarities between Gaudí's work and the artistic universe I had had in mind for years but had never created due to my inhibitions over certain technical and material issues.
A few days later, while reading a quote from Saint-Pol Roux “True art is anticipatory” and thinking back to Gaudí’s work, I decided to take up the challenge: to find the solutions that would allow me to create and develop my own anticipatory multidimensional universe.
The awareness ...
Having defined the fundamentals of my multidimensional universe, I realized and decided in 2021 to completely abandon artistic norms and classic materials.
So, to devote myself entirely to the birth and creation of my art, the first step was to find a basic material that would be light, flexible, or rigid depending on my needs, that could be drilled, cut, sanded, sculpted, welded, etc.
A material that had to be durable, not sensitive to heat or humidity, and that would accept paint and varnish.
In short, I had to find the ideal material that would perfectly fit and adapt to the birth of my universe, and not the other way around.
Finally, the material ...
After three years of researching, testing, and testing, …
I finally found a professional-quality composite material, ideal for creating my world on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions.
Reserved by its manufacturer for a certain category of professionals, this very recent material, born of innovation, is unfortunately not available in DIY stores or other stores, and even less so in fine art stores.
To be worked and sculpted, this material therefore required extensive testing to find the right tools, techniques, etc.
I also created all the recipes and mediums specific to this raw material to make it perfectly compatible with acrylic paints and varnishes.
1) Tangible reality
- Each painting is created on three main levels (background, support, subject) to form a three-dimensional whole (length, width, depth).
- All lines and shapes are rounded, curved, or looped (no straight lines, as in nature or the human body).
- The subject(s) are frozen in their movements (as in a screenshot) and suspended in mid-air, levitating.
- All colors are vivid and positive, and natural shadows provide a natural frame.
One universe for two realities !
2) Intangible reality
- In addition to the three dimensions, new perceptions are added: space, time, movement, the spiritual, etc.
- Each composition is based on several antonyms (man, woman, upside down, positive, negative, shadow, light, visible, invisible, etc.)
- The colors are mostly iridescent and change depending on the viewing angle (e.g., blue/black, green/yellow, blue/green, etc.)
- Making invisible colors visible... Some shadows are naturally colored by a halo that varies depending on the intensity of the light.
- All rounded, curved, or curly shapes bring feelings of serenity, calm, harmony, infinity, life, unity, positivity, etc.