Displaced

Requiem for a dance (2015)

This is a series of illustrations to be etched for an upcoming book about iconic anecdotes about painter both in western and eastern traditions.

Mythologies

Series that refers to the Buddhist concept of Dharma in a humorous manner, with the combination of Oysters and the figure of Buddha.

Buddha & Oysters (2011/2012)

Series of work combining actual tiretracks on  abstract painted skies.

Skies & Tiretracks Series

Onto arid extents
catastrophic cactuses
prophesy.
These multiple pirouettes
-in suspense-
are they falls or plunges.


So far So Good

This piece is part of an ongoing series resulting of a very specific process. I used a twine soaked in painting and pressed in a folded paper. The first line is covered with a layer of white acrylic and the process is repeated with another soaked and pressed twine. Then the a woodblock depicting a brain is printed, covered with whit paint and printed again over the previous one. The last stage of the process consists in cut outs of whimsical balloons evolving the central brain pattern. 

Brains and Balloons series

Studies

Miscellaneous Collages

Series of creations made from pictures gathered on the way...

Within the Armor (2010/2011)

Banana peels is one of my oldest pattern, it comes from the archetypal comic strip gag of the guy walking in the street while reading his paper not paying attention to the surroundings. Banana skins are here to remind us of our human condition... . We are like fallen angels that have to deal with triviality of life and unexpected misfortune.

Angels in this series play an ambiguous part, they either take off those banana skins or deposit them... Anyway, the humorous relationship between those two patterns and possible meanings they convey is one of the main concern in this series.

Julien Guibreteau