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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 41.3 W x 13.8 H x 0.8 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Dawn will come and then the show they made will disappear, Sheol* the home for them!" (The Jerusalem Bible) I started this series of square small formats about the All Saints' Day, or Day of the Dead which happens every November 1st in France. As I visited my father's grave every year at this time, I realized that I had become older than my father. Lost in my bearings*, I left the cemetery pondering my experiences. Back at the studio, I found a small square frame (35 x 35 cm) with which I framed my head in an old sheet of mirrored paper, which reflected a twisted and deformed face, triggering my inspiration. But I faced with a dilemma. For some years now, my research has been moving towards abstraction, which seems to me to be closer to reality, at least to reality as we experience it today, fragmented by the media... and in the face of reality, it seems to me that the force of the physical presence and tactility of painting is not apparent in this constant circulation of images, emptied of its real content. Furthermore, how to avoid falling into the fascinating poisonous trap from the carnivorous spell of the famous portrait's studies of F. Bacon with which this actual work attempts to get in resonance? The artist is nourished of the whole history of Art and the pictures are nourished by the Painting where intervenes the personal history of the artist… This series of studies tries to negotiate between human intimacy and abstraction. *Sheol (שאול): Untranslatable Hebraic term, that refers to the “stay of dead". The eminent biblist William Foxwell Albright points out that SHE'OL seem to share the root of SHA'Al, which literally means “the question”. *Landmark: Also noteworthy is that in French this word is said: "repère" \ʁə.pɛʁ\ that sounds like "père"\pɛʁ\ ("father"). To even go further on the desire at play in intersubjective fields, "re-père" would mean "re-Father" in the Lacanian sense.
Original Created:
2015
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Multi-paneled Painting:
Oil on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
41.3 W x 13.8 H x 0.8 D in
Number of Panels:
2
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
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Matchoro Guy
France
Statement: REALITY IS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE PAINTING. WHO: Guy Matchoro, is an autodidact artist. He lives and works in Nevers, France, where he has installed his studio since 2013. After a creative process nourished and fuelled with encounters and artistic collaborations, in particular in Kyoto, Japan, where he lived for a time, he focuses its studies towards a pictorial approach based and thought from a materiality of painting. WHAT: I began the past years a pictorial practice fully based and thought from what was strictly physical and material in painting. I have always been fascinated by the materiality of painting by its tactile side - its tactility and how this affinity should be able to finally transmit feelings and ideas which could be very very abstract. My relationship to painting is not any more in term of capture of the real-world. It is the picture in itself which is reality. What is the reality ? It's the reality of the act to paint which comes to appear there. I any more will not seek something elsewhere to nourish it or to justify it. WHERE: I placed myself by the teachings that I have learned from painters, books, museums, exhibitions, writings, but even more by traveling around the world... And the development of the practice in this line, while on the move, or working in the studio, in front of that tradition of the abstraction not like a stylistic choice but rather like a way of placing itself with respect vis-à-vis the Real. WHEN: My «job» as a painter is made up of moments. A series of moments of truth which represent actually the taking risk of the artist. The moment of truth is “of truth” when it irreversibly fixes something on which you cannot return: One moment that you cannot play again. If time is closed implacably with our incapacity to be able to play again, in the same time, it opens us to an infinite depth with freedom to produce the new one. Painting confirms what time affirms while making use as much of the daily life that moments of truth which are works of art. A time when nostalgia under the influence of memory leaves place and gives life to the merry assent of the incipient future.
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