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Alexy Berthelot
ART Habens
a good spectator, I love to visit the
museums, but also to mingle with
people, to contemplate the
landscapes, to feel the grains of
sand of the beach ... I appreciate
all the paintings and works of
artists, famous or less known, I
never feel better or less. What is
extraordinary with art is that
everyone can manifest his own
expression.
me after all .... The watch, the
pendulum, but too mechanical to
my idea for a picture supposed to
represent the timeless and
especially too common, hourglass,
clepsydre ... but there was a notion
of end ... so the sundial seemed to
me the most adequate and poetic
.... The "Vanity" is rather a classic
literary reference, but who is not
confronted with this idea? As long
as we have something to say we
have something to live on.
"Pride" perhaps represents my
taste for precious objects, an
image of the things I would like to
surround myself, beautiful and
rare. The artist also has his share
of pride.
I like the idea that things are not
fixed that an object or any other
forms can be both ... The idea is
that the elements are proposed as
an invitation to the viewer and not
as a commandment. It is essential
that my painting is not given or
imposed ... everyone to bring his
vision I like that people can
appropriate my painting as an
extension of themselves and not
just as an aesthetic relationship. It
is nice that there remains a little
mystery behind the door half
open.
I have, of course, much respect
and admiration for the masters of
painting. But I do not have any
precise reference that would allow
me to cite this or that ... Of course,
Dali protected my adolescence,
but I feel more symbolist than
surreal. I feed on what the world
gives us, what others give us. I am
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