Relief 3 Installation

The first Reliefs were created for the project L'Art Renouvelle le Lycée 2012, organised by the Passage de l'Art gallery. ARL theme - an opposition between excess and limitation - is present in my work by questioning the border between painting and spatial objects. In Reliefs I take up the theme by crossing bi-dimentional image limits and by opening them to other dimensions. At first I replaced the usual base of my paintings (canvas on frame) by a woodboard. Next I literally deepened the dissociation of the background and and the form of my images, cutting out the form from the background and hanging it a few centimeters from the wall. The forms hover on the wall which becomes the new background. It is a work on the border between painting and sculpture. The relationship between the plane form and the volume is very important during the phase of cutting the forms from paper, essential to the creation of my works, both pictorial and spatial, resulting from an intuitive need to experience space. The wooden elements are bolted by small metal hinges and screws. The hinges have got a few functions. They connect elements simultaneously keeping between them a fine separation line. This line, as well as the forms' borders function as a drawing. Apart from the possibility of real movement ( part folding of elements), hinges introduce an idea of movement, imaginary and much more vast into the piece. These plastic events are above all formal, although something of the figurative remains in them. The starting point of an abstract form very often comes from figurative forms, brought on by everyday reality. I am convinced that a real abstraction does not exist beyond of the idea of abstraction. More than abstraction, I am interested in the oddity of the received form, the multiplicity of senses which it evokes.