ART Habens
Alexy Berthelot
My production process takes place in several steps, first the choice of the texture and the color of the basic material. In this specific case the desire for a universal material, and basic to any artist such as a single sheet of paper.
I needed a simple and symbolic object, that of the white sheet, the one you look and just wonder what you are going to draw in it. Then it is the sheet itself that becomes the subject. Then comes a sensual and manual game of sculpture, crumpling, folding of the tissue paper without falling into the figurative representation, to reach a sort of organic abstraction. I later use light, air, water to stage what is present is only ephemeral structure. Crumpling and nonsculpture staged to sublimate its light. Like a cloud, there is a very brief and magical moment when matter becomes vision. Every spectator can freeze his gaze on this moment. Thanks to the photography I capture and chose my point of view which allows me then to reveal the invisible and the vision of new forms that give me emotion. Then intervention and digital processing that will allow me to subsequently accentuate and reveal all the subtlety of matter.
Finally, I reproduce on wooden board my drawing and then begin to paint with oil colours. Nice pretext to paint between transparency and color, personal technical challenge, fluidity and matter, realism and abstraction. The personal vision is reinforced by the voluntary choice of a neutral background and a suspended framing, levitation, levitation.
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