Measurements:height 120 cm, width 240 cm Technique:acrylic, pigments, waxes, charcoal, India ink and pencil. Support:canvas
A painting created through free improvisation. Action painting set to the music of The Beatles.
The Lion Panel in the Chauvet Cave (France) is considered probably the first painted landscape in history. A group of lions stalks a herd of bison. The painting is fantastic and extraordinarily expressive.
In this work, some of the figures from this panel (the lionesses on the left) and from other places in the cave (the stylized mammoth or the rhinoceros at the bottom) are reinterpreted, building a landscape "in the Chauvet style" where these figures coexist and relate to some of my usual drawings, especially with the figure of the humanoid equipped with his trident (symbol of agriculture) which seems to indicate that from now on he is the king and the Earth belongs to him.
We are only animals, yet we speak with the Gods. We hunt and paint. We farm and pray. We are insignificant and gigantic at the same time. Simple and magical. We are nothing, or perhaps the only thing.
We, who are Nature but have become something else.
Gestural, intuitive painting that lets things happen and relies on what emerges. Taking advantage of the unexpected and accepting the consequences.
The unknown, that which slips through our fingers... Nature, antiquity, the earthly and the spiritual.
The need to tell stories, to leave a mark, to understand the world, which is always both modern and ancient.
Nothing matters much... Working with a lost look in my eyes...
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