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Clement Loisel
TODAY:
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Intriguing treatment of these once beautifully rendered portraits. Adding a layer of paint on top of the piece provides us with a compelling reason to look deeper and inward to find the true meaning and often hidden power of the real person indicating how we are still whole even when parts of us are concealed to the outside world.
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Intriguing treatment of these once beautifully rendered portraits. Adding a layer of paint on top of the piece provides us with a compelling reason to look deeper and inward to find the true meaning and often hidden power of the real person indicating how we are still whole even when parts of us are concealed to the outside world.
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Biography
In my work, the human figure is central to my vision as a site of pictorial experimentations and as a means of communication. In my Caramel & Barbarie (Caramel & Barbarism) series made circa 2006-2009, I explored violence and reconstitution of figures in magazines and books. I would begin by tearing apart images before reassembling them in collages that served as the source imagery.
This picking in the popular imagery naturally led me to another type of « archeological work », reaching to a more personal level. From 2010 , I began to scavenge and dig for "lost memories" in the form of old family pictures found in Berlin flee markets dusty alleys, buried in old cardboard boxes, sold for a few cents the piece. This series started in 2010 is untitled Memory Holes. In these works one can almost hear the screams from the ghosts of the past, desperately trying to be remembered.
After re-discovering vanished faces in Memory Holes, in my most recent series Persona I explore the concept of masking oneself, the grey zone of ones soul. The mask has the power to shroud, or to perversely amplify the true self, allowing us to hide some aspects of our personality in a society where it became more and more difficult to preserve oneself. It is said that eyes are the mirror of soul and the mouth the door of language – one for the truth and the other for redemption. That is why it is only after painting the subject totally and achieving great qualities of realism that I allow it to partially disappear under layers of paint. My work is in direct dialogue with the viewer, only to understand that the Self and the Other are in fact inseparable in order to exist in this world.
My work embodies the notion of identity, by covering and discovering silent zones in the painting. It could be seen as a violent melancholy, a poetic quest for identity; it is the fragile balance of a short moment that could live forever.
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