BALTAZAR - N.C/N°15 -S2 Painting

(NEW CURIOSITIES SERIES): As in all this series, area he pictorial and graphic art from which resurface heterogeneous and anachronistic fragments of art images and paintings torn from time, updated, torn to pieces for an unexpected and unprecedented destination. Torn, superimposed, intertwined, these collages and take-offs play with eclecticism, the hybrid, the chimera, the motley, even the ruin, to represent paradoxically, here again and always in the present. The pictorial film remains visible with its repentance, its traces, its overlaps. De-figuration / reconfiguration, the fragment hides a detail, a movement is lost in its course, a mask obliterates a look, a writing is drowned under another. Freed from their origins and as if from nowhere, crossed gestures and glances once again surface, here and now, agree and dialogue before our eyes in the reconquest of a new space-time. Heterotopia of art, heterochrony of painting, here even these "curiosities" beckon us (sometimes with humor), despite the imminence of loss, the threat of erasure ... "BALTAZAR" (N°15) : Here, in this new unexpected and anachronistic pictorial context, this detail of the famous portrait of Prince Baltazar Carlos painted by Velasquez reappears with all its confidence in an anarchic graphic and pictorial universe made of successive layers, referring to different temporalities; but he reigns supreme, takes his place enthroned on his horse! .. While around him fragmented figures are agitated and clash; a pictorial writing which serves the portrait rather than engulfing it. A realistic detail of a male portrait of Walker Evans watches from below the stage and challenges our gaze just as much, while a discreet erotic-mythological detail ( Mars and Venus by Tintoretto) brings a contrast in the form of a wink ... (Iconographic references: VELASQUEZ, Equestrian portrait of Prince Baltazar Carlos, 1635, Prado Museum, Madrid; TINTORET, Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, ca 1550 Alte Pinakothek, Munich; and Walker EVANS, Photography, portrait of a man with a hat). Thus in this confrontation a triple deviation is manifested which is both anachronistic, symbolic and narrative: equestrian portrait of a child Prince with an aristocratic port, in contrasts with a simple realistic portrait of a man of the 20th century, a stranger caught in the middle of the street, and in the form of a wink, an erotic allusion under the guise of a mythological subject ... - "We must not say that the past illuminates the present or may the present illuminate the past. An image, on the contrary, is where the Old meets the Now in a flash to form a constellation. Walter Benjamin.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16.9 W x 16.9 H x 2.2 D in

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