Notes (?) 1978...
While, up to the middle of the XXth century it was possible to observe large artistic movements exploring their own time, announcing and succeeding each other, today, the frenzy of the art production and of the interest it generates make the art scene presenting itself like waterfalls as they appeared on early photographs. The low sensitivity of the emulsion at that time only accommodating long exposures, the rapidity and multiplicity of the water movements resulted in an almost immobile, oily and viscous appearance. Viscosity composed of an infinity of distinct, interactive, uncontrolled and instantaneous moves of droplets, waves, backwash, splashing which all merge into a dense and placid uniformity, their extreme agitation visually creating the absence of movement.
With its assemblage of innumerable, different, opposite or contradictory affirmations, neutralising themselves into a compact and self-blocking mass with their plurality, the contemporary art world can't avoid this problem. What was the slowness in technique in early photography that created an image so very different from its own reality, today could be the lack of distance. The immediate fascination for the part of the art production that one is concerned or touched by and the addition of the multiple ways to look at the whole scene, one loses sight of the potential danger of drowning into an uniformity from which it becomes difficult to perceive any 'significant' emerging, springing.
The purpose of this series of works is to explore this phenomenon, to raise a question that is specific to our time and simultaneously to attempt an approach of a synthetic image alluding to it.
The first series consist of the juxtaposition of subjects grouped by themes: oil painted on paper, faces, dots, colours, genitalia, stars... etc, consider the heterogeneity of approaches proposed by the crowds of artists seen in exhibitions, catalogues, art magazines, art books, art fairs...