"Venus - 1 - A slice of Notre-Dame - Two yellow dogs" Artwork - Limited Edition of 3

This is a digital artwork based on the artist's original drawings. The drawings making up "Vénus - 1 - Une part de Notre-Dame - Deux chiens jaunes" (Venus - 1 - A slice of Notre-Dame - Two yellow dogs) were done with felt-tip pen, water and permanent marker and belong to the series [Les manières boschiennes]. "Venus - 1" is freely inspired by the work of Dutch painter Jérôme Bosch, "The Temptation of Saint Anthony". Patrick Gourgouillat lets his imagination guide the dense narrative of the original triptych. But he retains the central idea: Saint Anthony facing temptation. He accentuates the forms of desire by using straightforward erotic scenes. He preferred the fire in Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019 to the fire in Bar-le-Duc in 1463. His composition includes Quasimodo saving Esmeralda from the flames. He also used plant elements evoking the Egyptian desert. In a ceramic sky, he invites the Sun and Moon as opposing but complementary stars. The whole piece is structured like a cinematic sequence. Like the original, "Venus - 1" is bursting with detail, anachronisms and a dynamic chromatic rhythm. At first, we contemplate the work in its entirety, but the eye is quickly drawn in by so many peculiarities and strangeness... contemporary. Technically, the work is a montage produced using desktop publishing. The original drawings, produced by the artist on 21x14.8 cm sheets, are scanned, reworked, readjusted and even partly modified. "Vénus - 1 - Une part de Notre-Dame - Deux chiens jaunes" is printed on a 60 x 45 cm Alu Dibond plate with a natural wood "American box" frame. Two original drawings ("A slice of Notre-Dame" and "Two yellow dogs") complete the work.