My work aims at showing the links between Present time, our contemporary society, and the Past. In the history of art and humanity, it is strangeness and ambiguity which interest me in drawings. I only draw from life. There are many stages in my creative process : first to mold a part of the elements which form my model, then the installation in my atelier and finally the drawing. The fluidity and immediacy characteristic of the pencil’s line enable me to bring out superimposed, merged and sometimes faded forms. An immaterial thickness appears on the sheet of paper. (...)
I always have been attracted by wastelands, these areas which don’t really belong to anywhere, which accumulate things, whose shapes we don’t recognize, and in this way stimulate imagination. The title of this set is a reference to Durer’s engraving called Melancolia (1514) which has always fascinated me. The fall of a meteorite, 4th no-vembre 1492 in Issenheim in Alsace (France), might have inspired Durer.
In the history of art and humanity, it is strangeness and ambiguity which interest me in drawings.
I only draw from life. There are many stages in my creative process : first to mold a part of the
elements which form my model, then the installation in my atelier and finally the drawing. The
fluidity and immediacy characteristic of the pencil’s line enable me to bring out superimposed,
merged and sometimes faded forms. An immaterial thickness appears on the sheet of paper. An
encounter with Cy Twombly’s monumental work Le-panto (2001), composed of 12 paintings which
measure 216,5 x 340,4 cm each and ex-hibited in Brandhorst museum in Munich, is the origin of
my last set of drawings called « Mélancolie », composed of 5 drawings which measure 190 x 400
cm each. In this set I use the immersive dimension of drawing to suggest an encompassing and
destabilizing perceptual experience to viewers. I wanted to work on the idea of a landscape,
rhythmi-cal in black and white, the shadow and the light and oscillating between figuration and
abstraction. I always have been attracted by wastelands, these areas which don’t really belong to
anywhere, which accumulate things, whose shapes we don’t recognize, and in this way stimulate
imagination. The title of this set is a reference to Durer’s engraving called Melancolia (1514) which
has always fascinated me. The fall of a meteorite, 4th no-vembre 1492 in Issenheim in Alsace
(France), might have inspired Durer.
the history of art and humanity, it is strangeness and ambiguity which interest me in drawings.
I only draw from life. There are many stages in my creative process : first to mold a part of the
elements which form my model, then the installation in my atelier and finally the drawing. The
fluidity and immediacy characteristic of the pencil’s line enable me to bring out superimposed,
merged and sometimes faded forms. An immaterial thickness appears on the sheet of paper. An
encounter with Cy Twombly’s monumental work Le-panto (2001), composed of 12 paintings which
measure 216,5 x 340,4 cm each and ex-hibited in Brandhorst museum in Munich, is the origin of
my last set of drawings called « Mélancolie », composed of 5 drawings which measure 190 x 400
cm each. In this set I use the immersive dimension of drawing to suggest an encompassing and
destabilizing perceptual experience to viewers. I wanted to work on the idea of a landscape,
rhythmi-cal in black and white, the shadow and the light and oscillating between figuration and
abstraction. I always have been attracted by wastelands, these areas which don’t really belong to
anywhere, which accumulate things, whose shapes we don’t recognize, and in this way stimulate
imagination. The title of this set is a reference to Durer’s engraving called Melancolia (1514) which
has always fascinated me. The fall of a meteorite, 4th no-vembre 1492 in Issenheim in Alsace
(France), might have inspired Durer.