Montréal, QC, Canada
For those who ponder the notion of infinity and the immeasurable, there is often a key phrase that s...
About the artist
Joined In 2020
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About the artist
Joined In 2020
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For those who ponder the notion of infinity and the immeasurable, there is often a key phrase that serves both to define the depth of such a subject and to create a conceptual anchor in an artistic practice. In my case, the phenomenon of transformation, whether physical or imaginary, fascinates me. And to try to capture it, even to understand it, I try to translate it into images. Of course, some transformations, such as those related to flora and fauna, are easier to interpret. But for others, whether microscopic or macroscopic, there needs to be a control value that becomes a sort of "unit of measure": both colors and form support all types of transformations.
Playing with color helps me synchronize with visible waves. By jerky and repeated gestures, by the superposition of more or less large droplets, by different jets of paint on the canvas, I discover a kind of chromatic memory that has participated in the development and organization of the material. The earth (the organization of matter) transforms our bodies in the sense that it constantly changes the order and structure of our physical world. Color (the visible waves of the electromagnetic spectrum) concentrates our movement in the sense that it puts the physical world ...
I have been painting since the age of 16 and regularly, year after year, I use this medium to dive back into my imagination, which constantly feeds on colors, textures and movement. By jerky movements, by the superposition of paint droplets, by different colored jets on the canvas as on the clothes, I discovered, several years ago, a kind of primitive memory participating in the development of my psyche. From this discovery, my artistic approach aimed to give me access to ancient memories and to develop what I would call an archetypal pictorial language. It is thanks to this primitive memory, both chromatic and rhythmic at the same time, that I construct new images, including those of the 55 ICONS interface.
Photography has also served me as a mode of expression and representation from 1980 to today. It’s a way of freezing and imagining reality in order to better memorize it, analyze it and see it in an abstract way. When I try to capture abstraction through figurative subjects, I enter my imaginary world more quickly and manage to spontaneously generate new ideas. I allow myself, with the calibration of the device, to pick up what my eyes cannot see and what my brain tries to recognize. The fact of cropping the image through a ...
Métiers d’art 2017 Michel Delage
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Delage artiste peintre https://youtu.be/e6kvyC_N_RM