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Hatching and Red Series by Antoine Bridi
A- Hatches
Series (Divisionism)
Poet inspiration (Detail)
•
Optical Mix
- In the place of divisionism
points, I apply the hatching technique to represent human flesh;
the static effect created by Seurat or by Signac is thus transformed
into interior vibration that shatters the mute silence of form.
Hatching lines are juxtaposed side by side through the use of 12
pure colours that allow the viewer to experience a burst of movement.
• Reconciling the static and the dynamic
- The static pose of
the model as well as the static geometry of the composition are
betrayed by the palpitation of flesh under the influence of the
hatching technique that caresses the entire body and gives shape
to corporal anatomy itself. Dynamic energy emanates from the static
as it echoes the internal sonority of the model.
• Hatching
and painterly effect
- I overlay hatching
in successive applications beginning from the darkest to the clearest
in order to prepare the desired glow. The progression of overlay
is not intended as value enhancement but rather as colour enhancement.
Its source of inspiration is the metamorphosis of colour and of
the chromatic circle to intensify the resulting painterly effect.
• Unusual Impression
- The colour flesh does
not exist. The optical mix reconstitutes this colour from a distance
which cannot be obtained by any other mix, whence the fantastic
and phantasmagorical experience of the viewer.
• Interactivity
- As we move closer to
the canvas, the vibration of the coloured hatching technique acquires
progressive intensity. It is as though the body being represented
casts its own hypnotic spell over the viewer. It is an attempt to
translate into colour the mythical effect of sonority produced by
the siren song that enchanted mariners.
B- Red
Series (alla prima)
•
Drawing and Painting
- These representations
are a testimony to the reconciliation between drawing and painting,
between line and colour. The Raphaelesque line, which at one time
was used to give relief to graceful motion, is used here in a new
function, which is to capture the interior agitation expressed by
extended impasto applications – bringing new virtuosity to the construction
of the anatomy – and through the use of energetic graphics that
are in feverish communication with the body being represented, whence
the apparent vibration of the contour generated by the tensions
between the centrifugal and centripetal forces of the body.
- The flamboyance
of the colour as well as the energy of the graphic lines combine
to create an atmosphere of turbulence extending beyond the limits
of the canvas as it invades the zone of the viewer.
• Diminishment
of Glow (dominant seventh chord)
- The lighting
never reaches its dominant –white–, which produces a luminous and
chromatic effect on the sense of sight as the process is being accomplished
(on the way to fulfillment). A similar effect is produced musically
when the leading note of the half cadence suggests the finale without
however achieving it. It is similar to leaving a question in suspension,
the subjective answer to which is left suppressed in the field of
the viewer.
- Coming back to the red series, the diminished lighting –yellow–
seems to highlight an ecstasy which has not yet reached the threshold
of orgasm.
• Framework
Composing Light and Obscurity.
- Lighting is
no longer conditioned by the source of the light, but is induced
through the composition of light and sombre zones. The geometry
thus becomes instable and its equilibrium can only be restored through
the selective illumination of the zones. It is in this sense that
we refer to the framework composing light and obscurity.
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