Joker Painting

One day I wrote in one of my books: "nowadays that reality is linked equally with the visible, nothing exists outside of the image, and paintings no longer show the past or any other definition other than the Surfigurative"

I created the Surfigurative movement. To surfigure the past means maintaining it above the image itself by the true sign of its own destruction.

Painting the past involves creating the keys that help to unlock the representation. And that is why I paint scenes from the cinema, jazz musicians photographed in concert and women photographed in glossy magazines.

I only use oil pastels. The advantage of these is that it gives the stroke and colour simultaneously, recalling the process in my book, which, borrowed from the cinema, presents without transition, events that coincide with one another.

Just as my paintings coincide with the deja-vu.
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Although founded in the 21st century, the "surfiguratif movement" rests upon a major event in the history of art: the invention of photography.

You may recall that following the creation of photography, painting did not only and curiously become maladroit, but little by little it also fell back on to its own specificity, and as a result, instead of being figurative it claimed to be abstract (from all representation).

God is dead! And the art of painting immediately lost its way. With a few exceptions, such as Courbet, who, in 1866 offered the world a glimpse into his origins: the female sex!

Photography was an unacceptable vision for the new Queen, which in the "light" of Freud and his discovery of the subliminal, was going to return this opening like the finger of a glove, and place scrutiny on the dictatorship of Phallus, with his erectile view and pointer which controlled all of photography. Reality was no longer seen as being linked to the creation of the visible and to the world of photographers, whether they were fixed or animated.

"When the constructed image, chosen by somebody else became the principal link between the individual and the world that he or she was previously looking at, the fact that the image can support everything is not evidently ignored"

And at such a point in France, at the end of the last century, the practice of undesirable, ordinary and non-circulated painting was declared, after the death of God and the end of this story.