L'Essence d'un instant

The painting belongs to the cycle of “Anti-contemporary” of which M. Capitelli wrote: …” though it may sound like a condemnation of the present day, actually sounds like - if you take the dash out, and here is one ambivalence, the adjective ‘antique’ prefixed to the word ‘contemporary’. Therefore, it includes history in contemporaneity, setting the continuum of time free from an illogical partition. It reflects Jean Clair’s idea, who thinks that every museum which is specialized in medieval, renaissance or modern art actually breaks the flowing, uninterrupted course of time. If not sustained by the essential substrate of history, contemporary art does not exist”…