Tensions [220112-01] Print

Laurent Marty is a french painter, living and working in Marseille. " My artistic practice is developed around several notions and questions : the dialectic of the figure and the background, the work in reserve, the silhouette and the backlight, the organic, the concave/convex, full/empty ambivalences. My first ambition is to develop strange, singular, ambiguous images, having a strong graphic and chromatic presence, a real evocative power, but whose pictorial technique of ascent to the form would double this strangeness. Indeed, my paintings proceed from a reversal of the traditional construction procedure, and a questioning of the classic relationship between form and background. It is a matter of creating a contradiction between the relief of the lower layer, which suggests a certain image, and the solid outline of the upper layer, which contradicts the expected silhouette, pierces the evoked volume, destabilizes the figuration. It's a very drawn painting. I have a requirement for perfection of the line, even on a close scan of my large formats. I am sometimes frightened by the exasperating precision I impose on myself in tracing the contours with the brush. But I fear that the chromatic excess, the formal extravagances, I can only dare to do with this restraint of the hand. To tell the truth, I would like the circumspection of my implementation to exacerbate the sensuality of the medium. "