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200 huiles sur toiles, dimensions variables / 200 oils on canvas, various sizes

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La série « Salamandra’s Icons » (Les Icônes de Salamandra, en français) se composera au total de 200 huiles sur toile de dimensions variables. Commencée en 2017, elle compte aujourd’hui 60 toiles achevées et plusieurs dizaines sont en cours. Chaque toile exprime une figure – une forme, un signe ou un symbole – qui est à la fois représentative[3] et polysémique. Mes formes sont inventées dans un sens kafkaïen, dans le même sens que Franz Kafka utilise pour parler du « mot » dans son journal continuez à lire...

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huile sur toile / oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm / 32 x 23.5 in.
2023
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
60 x 73 cm / 24 x 28 in.
2023
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
89 x 130 cm / 35 x 51 in.
2023
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 100 cm / 29 x 39 in.
2023
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
162 x 130 cm / 64 x 51 in.
2023
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
30 x 40 cm / 12 x 16 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
60 x 73 cm / 24 x 28 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
100 x 73 cm / 39 x 29 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
65 x 55 cm / 25.5 x 21.5 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
89 x 116 cm / 35 x 46 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
116 x 89 cm / 46 x 35 in.
2022
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 100 cm / 29 x 39 in.
2024
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in.
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
76 x 41 cm / 30 x 16 in.
2021
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oil on unstretched canvas / huile sur toile libre
220 x 214 cm / 86.6 x 84 in.
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in.
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
180 x 180 cm / 70.8 x 70.8 cm
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in.
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in.
2021
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in.
2020
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
89 x 130 cm / 35 x 51 in.
2020
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
22 x 27 cm / 8.7 x 10.6 in.
2020
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in.
2020
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huile sur toile / oil on canvas
30 x 20 cm / 12 x 8 in.
2019
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22 x 16 cm / 8.6 x 6.2 in.
2019
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
55 x 81 cm / 22.6 x 32 in.
2018
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
100 x 73 cm / 39 x 29 in.
2018
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65 x 55 cm / 26 x 22 in.
huile sur toile / oil on canvas
2018
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 cm
2018
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 cm
2018
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
40 x 30 cm / 16 x 12 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 16 x 12 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
60 x 73 in. / 24 x 28 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
50 x 40 cm / 16 x 12 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
40 x 50 cm / 12 x 16 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
60 x 73 cm / 24 x 28 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
60 x 73 cm / 24 x 28 in.
2017
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oil on canvas / huile sur toile
73 x 60 cm / 28 x 24 in.
2015

Each painting in my series “Icons” seeks to express a “figure”–a form, sign or symbol–which is at once representative and polysemical. My forms are invented in Kafkaesque style, akin to the style in which Kafka speaks about the “word” in his diary: “My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.”[1] This process of invention, according to theorist Ihab Hassan, “…requires patience. Patience is a kind of refusal; it resists accommodation in a world of easy meanings.”[2] The varying degrees of ambiguity expressed in my painted “Icon” allow the viewer several interpretations of the form. In this way, my “Icons” subvert as well as enlarge the contemporary function of the icon–contrary to those which invade and overrun our daily life–reducing it to icons immediately recognizable and unequivocal–like symbols found on the screens of smartphones. Similarly, like painting, my “Icons” respect their original meaning of the icon’s double function, described by Michel Thévoz as “a material and sensitive object on the one hand, and a form of meditation towards an invisible transcendence, on the other.”[3]

In this series, I aim towards the expression of a ‘readable’ form (one resulting from a clear relation ‘figure-background’) but also polysemic. All along the pictorial process, I seek to reveal the form, to make it appear. My way of working is twofold: either I research the form to invent it, or I recover an iconic form–citing a form from other artworks–that I question through my painting.

June 2022

1. Franz Kafka cited by Ihab Hassan, The Dismemberment of Orpheus, Toward a Postmodern Literature (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1982), 119.
2. Hassan, Dismemberment, 119.
3. Michel Thevos, L’Esthétique du suicide (Paris: éditions de Minuit, 2003), 126.