In his bubble
I would like to tell you about this painting which is a little different from the work I do on a regular basis. It's a 50 x 50 acrylic painting, a format that I like and which I describe as small format. A square… I am a little captivated by this format which continues to take a very important place in my work, whose approach is the fusion of architecture and art.
“IN HER BUBBLE” acrylic on canvas 50 x 50
This work, with "La pomme fugueuse", is a sort of revelation of a research that has fascinated me for a long time: human posture in a given space. I searched for a very long time for the meaning that there could be between architecture and my painting. Since my beginnings, human posture has challenged and questioned me, giving me today the feeling of better understanding my work as a painter.
Three elements are very strongly linked in my studies and my painting work: the format of the canvas, the human posture of the character and the close or enveloping space of the subject, in direct link with the format of the canvas. As if to evoke the expression or emotion of a restricted space... the one that is right by our side, that we can touch, that reassures us or distresses us and/or leads us to dream.
“In his bubble” is a work which is purely imaginary, but which articulates perfectly with the feelings of my artistic work. The only visual reference is the portrait of the young woman, inspired by a meeting and a verbal exchange on the subject of agoraphobia.
The search or satisfaction of finding ourselves in a place that is familiar to us and which lends itself to securing the mind, due to its morphology or the simple fact of being able to settle there with the space required for reassuring introspection. The magic of the place which questions or imposes a posture and which makes this situation so soothing.
This painting presents a young woman curled up in a space which reassures her, a space which was able to welcome her with her outfit which represents her, a little singular, very graphic and a little voluminous. The graphic aspect of this painting adds an invasive disordered dimension, as if to better reclassify the optimization of this space.
The painting was created freely from a sketch which had previously been the subject of various research and studies, and the outcome of this acrylic painting occurred quite quickly, like an expression of automatic writing, like an imposed transcription. .
It evokes for me the fruit of a fairly distant journey and which resonates in me as a story which has meaning and which knew how to take place by itself.
Some works on the same theme are in progress and I will not fail to present them to you here. This theme of “inhabiting the canvas” allowed me to sketch several pages on the works to come.
I would be happy to collect your comments on this work and send me what it evokes for you.
The Lady in her bubble, a story of passion
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