The will Painting

François Jullien for li Chevalier BETWEEN THERE IS AND THERE ISN’T Here and there, shapes sporadically begin to appear, minimally, emerging out of the surrounding non defined-ness, standing firm and at times even sharp. Is this a portico, some sort of Japanese tori serving as a threshold? But where does it lead to? To one of these three interconnected arms? Or is it the Greek pi π, expressing incommensurability, defying rationality? The outline stands out naked, elemental, yet is not symbolic. It indicates that something is taking place, is emerging, has begun its individuation; it keeps our attention in suspense without contenting it. Lonely, scattered, slender yet firm, these three poles tear us away from the opacity of things, but they do not constitute a sign: rather than inhabiting the landscape, they enhance its emptiness and make its forlornness tangible. Between « there is » and « there isn’t», you wu zhi jian 有无 之閒 This protrusion underlines the diffuse blandness surrounding it: all is smooth, the eye glides by, diving into indifferentiation. Either some form of granulation seeps through to the surface, here and there, and begins to catch the eye – a hint of movement, a stretch of foam. But no form encloses this asperity, neither lends it contours nor leads it toward figuration. Or a line appears from without, detaching itself from an abstract stroke, withdrawing into itself almost elliptically, like a burst of light: its flattened out circle surrounds, enhances, leads our attention toward something, but we don’t know what. Because the ink saturates, leaving things evasive. Thus, that which emerges and is hinted at is not symbolic; as I have said, it does not open space for interpretation, it is allusive : it calls out to another dimension, but does not cut all ties with the sensitive world. It leads to a disadherence, which does not convert the eye, does not direct it toward an intelligible world. « Landscape beyond landscape », jing wai jing 景外景, in Chinese; or “taste beyond taste”, wei wai wei  味外味. The power, or rather, the readiness of ink; ink opens up betweenness and lets things through, indefinitely. By varying continuously, by waning and regaining life, by darkening or diluting, it lets things through, allows them to diffuse and impregnate. Thus, instead of capturing an essence, thanks to its substance, instead of building meaning through figuration, as painting has so often striven to do, it dissolves figuration and allows it to emanate. It makes us dream of elsewhere, but an elsewhere that arises from within, spreads from within. Infinity is no longer folded into a “Heaven”, yonder, behind its horizon, creating a separation – but unfolds out of the diluted.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:59.1 W x 27.6 H x 2.4 D in

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