INFANTE N.C N°14 -S.2 Painting

( NEW CURIOSITIES) : As in all this series, pictorial and graphic zones from which resurface heterogeneous and anachronistic fragments of art images and paintings torn from time , updates, tears to pieces for an unexpected as well as new 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 seemingly out of nowhere, crossed gestures and glances once again surface, here and now, agree and dialogue before our eyes in the reconquest of 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... “INFANTE”: (N°14) - Here, in this pictorial context, fits a detail of a famous “court portrait” by VÉLASQUEZ, L'Infante Marguerite, 1659, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, Austria. It is a question of confronting this portrait of "Princess Royal" to an environment populated by characters of unbridled graphic freedom. A challenge to integrate this precious aristocratic portrait in such a chaotic and ironic environment… On the right, a portrait or mask in a primitive, even “picassesque” style does not lose sight of the radiant Infanta in shades of blue, but offered to strange "temptations" without it being disturbed for all that . - "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.