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France
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 18.1 W x 21.7 H x 1.2 D in
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I don't reflect when I create. Quite the opposite. I let off steam. I look for forms to my impulses, to the incomprehensible, sometimes to the point of destruction of the canvas. I started with a bust without arms, pink, on a pink background. An image of a helpless victim who suffers life in pain. Virtually I colored my first image with bright colors, like reactions, shaping of the underlying violence that seeks exits. The blue background, the color of reason, took over after several erasures and stuck the subject frontally in the middle, as if the only escape route was to get out of the canvas. Red on the throat, could be a desire and a powerlessness to express it. It was only after the social media post that my own perception changed. Someone imagined my subject with arms as if he was pointing a gun at the viewer. The exploration of my destructive impulses in a safe space of creative expression had taken an all-too-concrete form on this very troubling question: do we direct our destructive impulses towards ourselves or towards the other? Managing my impulses through my artistic approach is very important to me, a kind of salvation. The environment can be very troubling and difficult to understand.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:18.1 W x 21.7 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Silver
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Daniel Derderian was born in Marseille, lives and work between Paris and Ghent in Belgium. With tender anger, Daniel Derderian deconstructs images in search of coherence between the social image and the particular sensation of being an individual. He seeks to unleash the strength and vulnerability that animates us by going back and forth between the surface and the bottom. He composes singular portraits representing the confusion and vanity of the human condition. Exploring the torsions of our souls, he highlights our particularities, our otherness, driven by a naïve desire to create a colourful, exciting world of diversity. His work is a eminent cry for love from a safe space behind the mirror. As a former classical dancer and performer in the entertainment world, he worked a lot on appearance and dynamics. By deconstructing formatted and idealized images, he looks for more intimate and visceral sensations including lack and desire. Daniel works in a hurry, torn between the moral brake of an adult and the unlimited fantasy of a wild child. He wants to preserve something unfinished in his work, completion would be the end of a dynamic. His subjects present themselves in an intimate moment with their strength, their vulnerability, their anguish, their fantasies, as hybrid creatures in a world between dream and reality. Confused between appearing and being, between different realities, he explores the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. He proceeds by first setting up a solid outline with pencil, felt, brush, he continues then with knife, rag, finger, white spirit to add decoration or erase, sometimes until destruction. Finally, beyond the realization, he looks for a simple connection, the beginning of a little story that comes out of the unsaid, a calming. Each work is framed in the same way, like a corset.
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