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Présences Flottantes - Acte 2
Press release
Continuing his silent opera in four acts , Louis Salkind presents today the Act 2 of its « Floating Presences». The artist always addresses universal and timeless topics with humor and poetry , linking profane and sacred.
He continues the same frontal and even minimalism approach with this will to un-contextualize the figures by painting them on neutral fund - figures whose singular iconography is immediately recognizable. But after the «clinical poetry» from Act 1, the artist deploys a shamanic aesthetics, increasing the part of unconscious and pulsion.
Dissonances abound between various fantasies and mythologies, such as this totem from animist tribes dedicated to the worship of animals, that Salkind figures with heads of animals for slaughter.
Always painted in oil but with a touch more assertive, the canvases are larger. An iridescent color comes from a maze of brush strokes and lines which the artist let guess the successive layers. Those soft colors counterbalance the brutal violence of the represented subject.
From his experience of theater, Louis Salkind retains the idea of repetition. Repetition of the image refining constantly the subject it seeks to reveal, forming as many paintings as days worked on it. Repetition until erasing the understanding of the primary form to finally reach the Representation.
More than in his first act, Louis Salkind takes us into a weird secret world of which he gives us a foretaste.
The exhibition will take place over a long period, with a summer interlude while the artist will install again his workshop in the gallery.