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Giving (after Van Gogh): Xanthopsia 100

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Description

1. Poetic Perspective: The work functions as a visual poem where the material (oil crayon, photographed canvas) and digital (animated textures) layers embody a metaphor of the palimpsest. Each layer symbolizes an offering: Van Gogh's revisited gesture becomes a contemporary donation, where the xanthopsia yellow radiates like a promise of light in the heart of darkness. The superposition of media evokes a fragmented writing, where the gift is revealed through erasure and rebirth, like a repeated but transformed verse. The stop-motion animation suggests a cyclical narrative, blending the ephemeral and the eternal, reflecting the quest for happiness as a perpetual act. 2. Philosophical Profoundness: By rejecting sale in favor of exchange (#objkt4objkt), the work questions the intrinsic value of art. This gesture is part of a Hegelian dialectic: the object ceases to be a possessed thing to become a mediator of relationships, embodying HEN's communal ideal. Van Gogh's duality (tension between madness and genius, shadow and light) is transposed into the balance between giving and receiving, an act in which happiness emerges not from possession, but from circulation. Yellow, the color of utopia and alienation in Van Gogh, here becomes a symbol of coexistence: xanthopsia is no longer a pathology, but a transformative filter, revealing beauty in chaos. 3. Artistic Innovation: The hybrid technique (physical/digital) creates a subrealist abstract expressionism, where the digital texture reproducing Van Gogh's brushstrokes interacts with the randomness of oil pastel. This dialogue blurs the boundaries between the organic and the virtual, evoking the way the artist's body persists in the digital age. The digitization of the hand-cut layers evokes an archaeological gesture: the original self-portrait is exhumed to be wrapped in a new digital skin, suggesting that art is always a recreation. The animation, for its part, injects a temporal dimension, transforming static contemplation into a kinetic experience, like Van Gogh's inner life, always in motion. Conclusion: "Giving" is an act of artistic faith: it defies the economies of attention and speculation to restore art as a joyful sacrifice. By blending the grain of the canvas with the fluidity of the pixel, the work embodies a materialist spirituality, where each exchange is a secular prayer. Xanthopsia, far from being an illusion, becomes the vehicle for a higher truth: it is in the alteration of our perception that lies the capacity to recreate the world. Tribute to Van Gogh: « Portrait of a young woman » see original at : Kröller-Müller Museum format / media / size / speed / timing / éditions : 2160 x 2160 px / 4k mp4 / 70,5 Mo / 8 fps / 59s / 1000