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776 La danse de Saint Guy / St Vitus dance Painting

Félix Hemme

France

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 236.2 W x 59.1 H x 0.1 D in

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The title of the painting "The Dance of Saint Guy (St Vitus dance in english)" comes from the strange epidemic of collective hysteria which struck the north of France and Germany in the late Middle Ages. The phenomenon was reflected by disorderly and uncontrolled movements to the point of exhaustion. Here 7 naked figures (+ a cat and a dragonfly) raise their arms to the sky and dance in an incongruous way. They have no heads, or have lost them. The bodies are made with my pattern (which is the result after scraping the strongest mark from the brush).

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236.2 W x 59.1 H x 0.1 D in

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Félix was born in France in 1976. He lives and works in the South West of France. "A full-time self-taught artist for over a decade, my artistic identity is deeply rooted in an obsession and bulimia for the act of painting and creating. This obsession is clearly manifested in my distinctive technique, a process I have developed that is a form of “scratching.” This method deliberately alters the surface of the canvas - and more recently also the surface of my sculptures - at a precise moment of creation, highlighting the most powerful trace of the brush. This surface-destructive approach aims to explore what lies "beneath" the oil paint, whether the canvas itself, an underlying color, a drawing, a painted image or the painted volume. In short, it seeks to reveal the truth hidden behind what is visible, perhaps my own identity. The repetitive pattern that I use, evoking waves, clouds, hills, even scales, depending on the viewer's interpretation, allows me to navigate between figuration and abstraction without hindrance. Currently, my drawing is voluntarily reduced to its simplest expression, just like the shapes of my sculptures."

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