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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 63.8 W x 45.7 H x 1 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
I started this work in my previous Parisian studio during the summer 2011; and summer 2011, for The Parisians, that was rain, wind, freshness, nothing which really doesn't look like a summer idleness. But you can also just say it's ideal for working! These kind of weather conditions are the genre where my imagination feels most at home; so as long as creative inspiration keeps coming, anything can happen. I've spent my last years of research, trying to describe the world: The small world just outside my window here in Paris with the homeless people on the streets in front of the small grocery shop, the cash dispenser, the metro entrance… but also recent events on TV news with its cohort of misery, destruction, widespread displacement, new genocides, got the better of me. Not to be able to look at, not to be able too, not to look at...I was exhausted. I believed in the "hot soup" at dawn, I drank with the "dark cup" of the shade. Getting disillusioned of oneself, when one is already disillusioned of all things, is perhaps the best way of making oneself relive thousand flames that had been thought extinct. Defeating self-doubt the obstacles to come. Bring back chance. Journeys are also made in the head. Keep the moral one to advance. Authorize oneself being weak. Show its weaknesses. Wash oneself. Remove dust. Get to the essential points. Reveal the mystery, the desire still in gestation and give way to pure pictorial pleasure. Oil on linen. A diptych such a Manifesto. Reality is in the manufacture of the painting. 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. TOP 10 Showdown 'In living colors" 2013
DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Multi-paneled Painting:
Oil on Canvas
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
63.8 W x 45.7 H x 1 D in
Number of Panels:
2
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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France.
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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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