A trip to the land of painting
I enjoyed spending time looking at the works of Claude Monet, especially the late works. I imagined them either figurative or abstract. I saw there a play with colors, an improvisation on colors.
I can stay for a long time Australian Aboriginal paintings. Am I connecting to something? They make me dream, but probably not the Australian dream? My mind can float there.
Usually in exhibitions, I can stay and look at the works; my imagination begins to speak; the heart begins to feel.
I took an art history course on the beginning of the renaissance. And the various Western theoretical discourse on art, taught me that in no case could they be considered as recipes for producing art: take a theoretical analysis of a work, it will never allow you to produce yourself!
I love to visit the retrospectives of a painter, Cézanne, Munch. This is the opportunity to take a trip. In a retrospective exhibition, by dint of immersing myself in the works, links of connections appear, a story is built. Likewise, one cannot start by reading "Time Rediscovered", nor understand "Le coté de chez Swann" without having read the last volume, in the same way, I began to appreciate the retrospective of a painter after having seen the whole story. exhibition and going through it upside down. Studying literature taught me to reframe a creation within the totality of an artist's work. I am deeply marked by Jung's gaze. Interpret a work as a dream.
Then one day I discovered that I could spend many painlessly thinking about painting and painting. It was enough to continue.
Some milestones
2020 Moves to Porto - Portugal
2019 Paris- Wolff and Decourtis - Galerie Vivienne
2018 Second exhibition in Rio de Janeiro
2017 First exhibition in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2002 Moves to Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - where he teaches Kinomichi. Contact with Brazilian colors
2002 Doctoral thesis on the meaning of budgets
2001 Second son: Guido. where will he take me?
2000 First son: Gabriel. What is he announcing to me?
1988 Endless visits to the Soho Galleries - NY
1985 Graduated in Mathematics from the Polytechnic School of Zurich
1980 studies in Zurich, city of Carl Jung and Albert Einstein, not far from Bern city of Paul Klee
1961-1980 Childhood in France, in Paris
Discipline and liberate
The idea of anarchist mandalas is inseparable from my way of painting. Therefore, it is necessary to understand this process.
When I started painting, there was still the possibility of dispersing myself; to do anything. But I was not going to submit to a classic or contemporary canon! What work was I going to put back twenty times on the loom? Keith Haring's reduced and simple iconography inspired me to make a choice of simple symbols that will be the basis of my work. It is in the repetition and variation on a few elements that one of the mysteries of my creation is hidden.
Normally each pattern has its own color; for example all the circles will be red. This rule needs to be strict otherwise it cannot offer variations and exceptions.
At first, I painted on white canvases! This process is the darkening of white, the elimination of light. Maybe a trip to darkness; I rejected this idea. A change was necessary: to paint on black canvases. In this new process, the brushstroke is a vector of light, of life. I felt like myself there. It is possible to try colored canvases as a base. The colored fabrics cause a play between the colors. The color of the canvas whirls around a farandole of color. It is very difficult to get out of a dual perspective when you start on a white or black canvas. The colored canvas directly sets the color wheel in motion.
Usually, I do the canvases two at a time: colored or black. For a while my mind searches for a beginning: a color, a pattern? Usually it's the same color for both canvases, but a different pattern for each canvas. I very rarely have the idea of what to do next. I don't remember imagining the finished canvases when I was starting them. Then, I look at the canvases for the time necessary for the sequel to prevail: other patterns with other colors.
