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France
Painting, Ink on Canvas
Size: 15.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in
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This canvas was created in Ghent, Belgium during the second lockdown. I was working on different traits of my friend Philippe, actor and only person really present. He had made a picture with smoky eyes and a huge fake fur cap in a game with his appearance and the boundaries of his modesty : an exaggerated pose as a carefree diva, man-woman, a burlesque character. The identity game of an actor with a disguise opens up many possibilities of reinterpretation. I wanted to highlight his dandy side, his old-school romanticism. I placed him in the modern times of the thirties and I played with genderfluidity. I surrounded him with a light background of flesh color. An evocation of the unbearable lightness of being ? A fanciful escape in the middle of a pandemic ? "Would you like me to introduce you ?" is the opening spoken phrase of a George Michael song 'Too Funky' whose video is performed by famous models who make a parody on their fashion shows, dressed in exuberant clothes by Thierry Mugler, I saw exhibited at the Museum of Decorative Arts at rue de Rivoli - Paris. Introduce me is a drawing I made from the same image.
Painting:Ink on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:15.7 W x 19.7 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:Other
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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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