Jacques Cauda

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.
To give it another aspe

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 sp...

Jacques Cauda vit et travaille Paris. crivain, auteur de plusieurs romans, et ralisateur de films documentaires, sa peinture doit autant sa pratique de lcriture qu celle de limage.
Au dbut des annes 2000, il cre un nouveau courant pictural, le mouvement surfiguratif.
Surfigurer, dit-il, cest prendre pour objet des sensations dont la source nest plus le rel mais sa reprsentation rtinienne. Le monde est devenu une immense image et le peindre, cest rcrire cette image.
Cest pourquoi, Jacques Cauda utilise le pastel lhuile qui a la particularit de se pratiquer comme une criture sur une feuille de papier. Il renoue ainsi avec le ut pictura poesis des Anciens : la peinture est aussi une posie. Cest--dire une question despace et dintriorit mls, qui le mne privilgier lart du portrait qui exprime au mieux cette articulation.
Ses uvres rencontrent un public international, Londres, Rome, Berlin, Barcelone, Paris, qui y a tout de suite reconnu, principalement dans ses portraits, cette motion premire que procure le trac du tout premier trait qui est la naissance de lart. De tous les arts. Le peintre est aussi un musicien.

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