Goldfish - 140 cm x 110 cm Painting

Goldfish - 140 cm x 110 cm Acrylic on canvas www.feugeas.com Goldfish follows in the continuity of the painting Macula. My first pencil strokes sketched a bar, quickly inhabited by a character on the left – likely a self-portrait – facing this goldfish. The character on the right imposed itself in its femininity but also with a very strange deformation, barely figurative, almost abstract. There is a peculiar duality here, as these two characters coexist in the same space – the canvas – but they adhere to two different rules of representation. It was only afterward that I understood that this strangely shaped woman is perceived through the gaze of this man with altered vision. He, however, remains quite figurative. He is depicted as he still imagines himself. We live in the image we have of ourselves, which is sometimes quite different from reality. As a spectator, or even as the painter who created this work, I contemplate this character from a new space imposed on me, a representation of myself. This new space reveals his vision of reality: this woman – this goldfish – appears strange and sensual in an aquatic and enclosed environment, that of an aquarium. This interplay of dualities, between the self-portrait and the altered vision, raises a question that animates every artist: how to present one’s vision of reality? This painting explores the subjectivity of perception, making the invisible visible and questioning the boundaries between perception and creation. Goldfish is a work where the duality of spaces – that of the man, the woman, and the spectator – intertwine to reveal a profoundly subjective and personal vision of reality. #goldfish #painting #artdeco #contemporainart #arte #frenchpainter #postneomodernism #saatchiart #beijing #sanfrancisco #dax #paris #split #croatia #frogmanartchina #unikarts_gallery #galerie_dom_art #france #jeanlucfeugeas #feugeas