Sub_Impressionism
Move in the First Garden
My process—an acrylic pictorial performance captured frame by frame, followed by a digital dissection of the canvas into layers, and finally the integration of digital paint and animation—is not just a technique; it is a ritual of transmutation. I take the fundamental, almost archetypal act of gestural painting (the expressionist instinct) and subject it to the logic of the layer, the pixel, and the digital timeline. The division of the final canvas into layers is an allegory of the physical gesture to reassemble its essence in a digital space.
The introduction of "white pixels" as a "deliberate error" is a conceptual gesture. It is the glitch elevated to a signature, a systemic imperfection reminiscent of both the grain of photographic film and the digital glitch. It breaks the aesthetic code of the "smooth finish" of digital technology to reintroduce a texture, a human and random trace, an index into the flow of the generated image. My reinterpretation of Van Gogh's "Woman in a Garden" through this sub-impressionist prism is, I hope, profoundly coherent. Van Gogh sought the vibration of life in brushstroke and color; I seek the vibration of contemporary consciousness in hybridization and interruption. The three two-hour stages evoke a form of creative trance, a ritual performance where the time of physical creation and the time of digital manipulation overlap to create a new temporality for the work.
tribute to : Vincent van Gogh - « Femme dans un jardin »
original pièce at : Collection François Buffa et fils
3840 x 2160 px / 4k mp4 / 242 Mo / 15 fps / VBR / 59 s