Biography
When a small child utters its first 'mummy' no one would think that it has already been done before. I believe that an artist's role is to take a stand on cultural legacies while calling them into question. It's from that point of view that I am interested in the civilization of Ancient Greece.
In my opinion, painting involves acknowledging the truths that present themselves during the process. It cannot be, then, a question of mastery, but only a path towards Truth, Justice and Beauty.
I concern myself with what seems to us to be the best known and the closest. And what is more common than the human figure? Yet it is inscribed in an immense network of cultural references. It is a vertiginous chasm where the slightest variation speaks meaningfully. The interpretation often involves choosing a critical space in that material known, consciously or not, by the recipient. For instance, defining a key moment in a story or a myth. It's a framework which calls forth the invisible, which conjures up what is not there, what is around, what comes before or after. For truly, except in fiction, where does space begin and where does time end?
