Interlaced Landscape VIII, 2023

The production of an artwork within the series follows three main stages: composition, decomposition, recomposition. Before cutting, each canvas is an abstract landscape/space with its own identity (composition). This space is then decomposed, cu...

The production of an artwork within the series follows three main stages: composition, decomposition, recomposition. Before cutting, each canvas is an abstract landscape/space with its own identity (composition). This space is then decomposed, cut into strips of random size (decomposition). Finally, each canvas is recomposed or assembled using the lateral/horizontal strips from one or more cut-out canvases (recomposition). During the recomposition operation, the strips are sometimes arranged in the same order as before they were cut, sometimes laid down randomly, often reunited by the hand of the painter delivering his narrative. As an additional aspect, the spaces between the strips are seen as breathing spaces, like the "white space" in music, where our brain fills the "void" by proposing a narrative of its own to the viewer. © Adagp