Nebulas
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Captivated by these interstellar clouds of dust, I wanted to illustrate the movement of the ionized gases with my paintbrush and translate their colours, visible due to their fluorescence caused by the embedded hot stars or special filters from the telescopes, with my pigments.
According to Rauschenberg, “The world is my palette”. It is not a new notion, as artists have always wanted to explore the colossal and gigantic aspect of art. Over 4000 years ago, the Egyptians placed this technique at the service of the construction of pyramids. Therefore, wanting to embrace totality is not something recent for Mankind.

200x150cm

With his immense Nymphéas, Monet was keen to enclose and drown his spectators within the painting. Large formats have this quality of making us lose our visual cues that are based on shapes and figures.
The goal of this project was to understand the notion of “informal art”. This universal abstract language is the translation of independent gestures, the rejection of any finished or descriptive form and at the heart of the concept of accidents and improvisation. I wished here to give shapes, not through drawing, but through colour. Distortion and depth bring rhythm to the sometimes opaque, sometimes translucent surfaces. ​

Zao Wou-Ki’s work was a great source of inspiration for my paintings as he maintains the fact that paint can exist without shapes. The areas of vaporous colours which coagulate, agglomerate, separate and merge onto his canvas seem almost directed by an alchemical formula. His paintings are often named after their date of creation as this unveils his attachment to the present moment and what is experienced at that very instant.

260x150cm

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150x90cm

260x150cm

140x80cm

130x90cm

140x80cm

200x150cm

170x120cm

170x120cm

170x120cm