THE VAGABONDS \u2014 BOHEMIA<\/p>\n
Artistic Poetry<\/p>\n
reclaimed material, \u201cdrawing-painting\u201d, collage \/ mixed media, character, visual literature, nostalgia, narrative ambiguity, and a certain dramaturgy of the support.<\/p>\n
A scene of bohemia \/ poetry \/ painting \/ literature.<\/p>\n
Two figures stand inside an interior that seems to belong to a vanished Paris.<\/p>\n
The man, dressed in black and wearing a broad-brimmed hat, appears absorbed in a silent reverie. Beside him, a young woman with an elongated, almost lunar face slightly turns her gaze away. Between them, something seems to have been suspended: an interrupted conversation, perhaps a disagreement, or simply that strange distance that can exist between two people who are nevertheless together.<\/p>\n
Above them, an enormous, yellow, almost electric moon takes over the scene. It is not merely an astronomical object: it becomes a presence. It illuminates as much as it disturbs, transforming the setting into a mental space where windows, furniture and fragments of architecture seem to merge into one another.<\/p>\n
A small sign reading \u201cCaf\u00e9 de Paris\u201d is enough to shift the scene into the imaginary world of Parisian bohemia: Montmartre, artists\u2019 caf\u00e9s, poets with no fixed address, wandering painters, and nights when one can no longer quite tell whether one is living, dreaming, or remembering.<\/p>\n
The treatment of the faces and bodies deliberately enters into dialogue with Amedeo Modigliani: elongated figures, silent faces, eyes that seem to look without truly seeing. Yet here, this reference is translated into a more raw and contemporary materiality. Deep blacks confront whites and flashes of colour; line, ink, chalk and acrylic overlap, contradict one another, and allow the accidents and traces of the original support to remain visible.<\/p>\n
The work was born from a reclaimed chocolate packaging carton, whose material and previous traces become an integral part of the painting. The faithful industrial cardboard \u2014 the original packaging, bearing the inscription \u201cDark, touch of salt\u201d on the reverse, together with the signature \u2014 becomes, in this context, something entirely different: a banal material destined to be thrown away, transformed here into the setting for a small story of vagabonds.<\/p>\n
In any case\u2026 something is happening !<\/p>\n
The moon is enormous, almost aggressive, electric.
\nThe tension is palpable, and emotion becomes mixed with interrogation.<\/p>\n
Is it a romantic moon \u2014 or the last light of a world collapsing?<\/p>\n
– A painting constructed like a drawing, and a drawing that ultimately becomes a painting.
\nMixed media on reclaimed packaging cardboard \u2014 acrylic, chalk, India ink, GFKP Japan pencil, BIC, Posca and mixed techniques \u2014 30 \u00d7 25 cm.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Monroe<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3213,"featured_media":408458,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"o","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[24],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/408455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=408455"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=408455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}