Gabriel Gauvain

An idea that is free, independent, abstract, universal, and absolute is called pure. Such thoughts have no limitations and exist independently of space and time. Ideas have nothing comparable to a tangibled existence in reality. There is no object of knowledge behind an idea. The word idea simply denotes a mental conception that exists completely detached from concrete reality. Everyone can have different ideas about anything because we are born thinkers. We cannot think unless we first imagine. "The ideas in the platonic sense are not brilliant figures, tied up like concepts, but rather a little shaky waste on a vague ground.

Gabriel Gauvain. Gabriel Gauvain presents the material not as that which serves, but as something independent, abstract and universal, the absolute matter manifested in its glory. Even if meaning emerges from the canvas: the pen and the paint remain “things” of nothing that cannot be resolved by any subsequent meaning. Making the matter appear as fact, paper or canvas are direct components from which the works are created in a sculptor's manner. These are the gestures with which Gabriel Gauvain spells matter, they are works in which matter unfolds into shape, a statement in fact. Gabriel Gauvain scribbles ...

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Designhaus / Germany