The artist's words

     A work of art is an expression of the one who creates it.It reveals his soul, who he is, what he feels. I don't create figurative works  because I think like Winckelman that "the aim of true art is not the imitation of nature, but the creation of beauty". With the invention of photography, lots of artists have understood that point.The evolution of art since the Impressionists is, as regards this fact, revealing
        However I am not hostile to those who want to look for inspiration in the spectacle of the external world, of appearances and thus, methought, remain at the surface of things. Though I am tempted to say as Redon said about the Impressionists they are "bas de plafond"(with a low ceiling)
          As to me, I try to go to the "gist", "beyond " the appearances, to make "the invisible visible"(P.Klee) . The painter must suggest a "next world " which,  mystics and  esoterists know it,exists. This "next world" is a world of beauty and harmony.
           An abstract painter goes to the essential, by neglecting the appearances, by searching for pure matter,  colours, rhythms, forms. He describes the energies because, from the infinitesimally small to the infinitesimally ly great, all is vibrations, all is forces. Forms are apparently frozen forces. In this matter, I refer to the remarkable analyses of the great art critic René Huyghe, in his book "Forms and Forces"
            I feel deep relationships with the Romanticists (Turner,K.Friedrisch), the Monet  creator of the Nympheas and the abstract painters of course : Pollock, Tapiès and above all Zao Wou Ki, all the more so as I know  eastern philosphies pretty well.

             To believe that abstract Painting is dependent on "cooking" and chance means not to have understood a lot.
            I believe that my paintings reveal what I am that is to say roughly a romanticist and an eastern mystic."  In the east we must look for supreme Romanticism "(F.Schlegel)
             Painting is part of my existential quest. I try to express what I am : "Become who you are" Nietzche has written.

             From the technical artistic point of view, it is shown by :
                    -great movements,big vortexes = all is vibrations
                    -horizontal lines = the horizontal line suggests the infinite, the next world.
                    -curved lines = they suggest water, evermoving matter, eternal life.
                    -pictures which seem to represent the sea- but it is the sea of my imagination, without a model- or the chaos. This sea or this chaos = the unconscious, the potentialities of hidden forces , the infinite, the forces which are part of Creation.
                    -great empty spaces= from emptiness, according to Buddhism, comes Creation. Being comes from No-Being. Vacuity is an anagram of God (in French Vide=Diev), it is harmony, silence, peace, serenity, Tao from where Creation emerges.
                    -dominant colours :
                           .blue = in colour psychology, blue is a symbol of peace, infinite, silence.
                           .white = vacuity,Tao.
                    These are a few remarks to understand my paintings. You are of course allowed not to like my "works". Of tastes and colours..Facing a painting, one reacts according to one's psychology, one's culture, one's level of consciousness.
                    One may criticize the fact that the value of my paintings  is far  from my intentions. I quite agree. I don'take myself seriously or rather I don't pretend being a genius. I am never totally satisfied with the result and I wish I could do much better to put my vision in concrete forms.
                     I know very well that what I am doing has already more or less be done. The great period of abstract art dates from the fifties and since then,there has been the pop-Art, the Minimal Art, the arte povera, the Conceptual art, the No-Art, the Land Art, the Body Art, the free Figuration...I could speak a long time about these movements...

                    How do I paint ?
                    I depart from colours- vaguely knowing where I am going, I mix colours, I let myself carry along by rhythms, inner images, forgetting the outside world, Time which does not exist any longer. Only the Present is.
                     I stop when I am pleased. Sometimes after half an hour, an hour and that is curious to notice that those more spontaneous paintings are often more successful, sometimes after three or four hours. At times, I will need another period of three hours or a third or a fourth.
                    First of all I enjoy myself. If you like it, so much he better. If you don't, so much the worse.
 

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                         My paintings are a pale echo of torrents of light perceived in the "Hereafter" when I am sleeping or dreaming.Have you ever made 'lucid dreams "? (Out of the Body experiment, being conscious out of the body)
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                        The sea, yes, it looks like the sea. Why ?
                        I use liquid paints -yes, cans ! So ,of course, it flows, it drops...
                        The sea is an image of Life
                        eternal life, ever reborn waves,
                        the horizon line symbolizes the infinite, quietness, peace, vacuity.
                        Life,-all is vibrations, rests on vacuity

                        "VIDE"(empty in French is an anagram of DIEU (God) - the Prakriti rests on the Purusha. Cosmic manifestation on the un-manifested, Being on Nothingness.
                        The Ego is an illusion. I am a wave in the cosmic Ocean and the wave melts in the Ocean. It belongs to It,eternally.
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                        Life is everlasting Creation. All is Creation. I only offer my little melody, that is all.
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                        Abstract Painting is Concrete music.

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                        I am not interested in the aesthetics of ugliness. Exit ! the Povera Art, the Dustbin art, the Pop Art, grey and dirty colours, graffitis and some avant-garde aesthetics. I don't care. I am not a careerist. I am not working to be famous, for posterity. In a thousand years, my paintings will be just dust like the body I inhabit.
 

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                        I liked the "Non-Art" invented by Ben  "All is art" but not his nihilistic point of view. The problem of No-Art is that the sensuous pleasure of painting disappeared. I teach what I would call "Djana art" an improved version of No-Art which is spiritualized if you like. It consists in watching the outside world as if it was a painting by Van Eyck. A detached gaze, caring, contemplative , a "Zen" gaze , with an innocent child's eyes, a child not yet conditioned by society. It is fantastic. I no longer have to make paintings.

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                        I am an eastern mystic who paints rather than a painter interested in eastern philosophies. Meditation makes one creative. Painting is my way of celebrating life.It is a meditation.