"Spiral" presents an abstract painting executed on delicate paper (or fabric), ~papier(~tissu) fin .
\nFrom this work emanates a roughly drawn spiral, yet despite its simplicity, the spiral is traced with palpable energy. One senses the artist's hand, seeking to express something through this movement, a kind of frenzy, evoking a whirlwind of life, an infernal spiral. The poetry of choosing a fragile medium, coupled with the emotional volatility and the disarray of a desperate energy, adds a poetic dimension to the work. It evokes the transience and fragility of existence, the finitude of time.<\/p>\n
Initially, it was "Tourbillon" but I preferred to name this work "Spiral" The "Tourbillon" (Whirlpool) lifts you, carries you away, while you fall into the spiral. With the word "Spiral," there is this sensation of being drawn downwards, towards something inexorably dark below, yet virtuous spirals also exist, one can ascend. In geometry, a spiral is a curve that describes revolutions around a fixed point, moving away from it, capable of growing to infinity. It can encompass varied symbolic meanings: growth, energy (virtuous spirals), or a period of emptiness, annihilation, a loss of life's vigor (spirals of irreversible descent). This almost lends it a mystical, nearly 'religious' resonance, of Good and Evil. Similarly, the meaning of the spiral drawn on the Phaistos Disc, dating from the second millennium BC, remains undiscovered. The Spiral, therefore, can find its significance in multiple states.<\/p>\n
The spirals of Leonardo da Vinci with his "Study for a Destruction," Rubens in "The Virgin and Child with a Whirlwind of Innocents," and, of course, Van Gogh with his "Starry Night" and swirling suns. These artists, among many others, have used the spiral as a motif. Leonardo da Vinci used it as a frenzy of curved scribbles, yet in perfect alignment, small spirals one upon another, a sort of preparatory study for the "Head of Leda" (?), for Rubens, it is the "Holy Innocents" swirling in a spiral around the Virgin, and for Van Gogh, of course, his swirling suns. For Marcel Duchamp, they are optical illusions within a mechanical art, creating hypnotizing, even stressful effects, between pop art and kinetic art; Marcel Duchamp's spirals were sometimes in motion, effects with light as well.<\/p>\n
Here, it is my spiral\u2014"life's accident," an infernal spiral, more akin to that of irreversible descent. The support reveals folds of texture. The edges are irregular and slightly torn, even burned. The material is delicate and perhaps ephemeral. The color palette is dominated by earth tones (drawn downwards): ochre yellow, brown, olive green. One senses the destructuration also in the bursting of hues, colors applied rapidly and spontaneously, non-homogeneous colors. Traces of pigments are noticeable, pigment effects enhanced with touches of brick red (torches) and turquoise blue, which can create a depth effect. The ensemble evokes a form of informal or tachiste art, favoring spontaneous expression, techniques\/gestures, and the creator's emotions at the very moment of realizing this "spiralitic" frenzy.<\/p>\n
This artwork, though modest, remains highly expressive and invites contemplation and reverie. The absence of a figurative subject leaves room for the viewer's imagination and interpretation. Each person can see what they wish: a shell, a vortex, a spiritual symbol, a passage, etc.<\/p>\n
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