Description
Like a poetic and philosophical affirmation, this statement traverses the space between contemporary art and the existential foundations of artistic creation. The work revisited here, based on Van Gogh's leather clogs, invites us to explore a symbolic territory where each creation reveals itself to be more than a simple visual representation—it becomes an initiatory rite, an endless quest towards the very roots of human creativity.
If Van Gogh evoked, through his humble and expressive work, the rudiments of a raw truth underlying everyday life, the piece revisited through subrealist abstraction offers a new, deeply personal and introspective perspective. The choice to superimpose digitized physical acrylic on the methodical simplicity of minimalist digital animation, frame by frame, subtly expresses an echo of perpetual movement. It is a meditative dance between tradition and innovation; between materiality and authentic gesture and the virtual and immaterial existence. This encounter transcends simple technical juxtaposition to become a powerful metaphor—that of the eternal renewal that underlies every creative process.
Thus, the work becomes active contemplation, a singular prism where contemporary expressionist abstraction enters into dialogue with the sensible, with that "essential" of which Kandinsky spoke. It is an invitation to return to the origins: from the first stroke to the pure movement of the creative gesture, devoid of artifice or pretension. This return to original modesty, to the very sources of artistic intuition, constitutes a mystical experience, where creating becomes the equivalent of a sacred ritual: constantly reconnecting with transcendental simplicity, the imaginary yet intimate place where everything begins and begins again.
This reflection becomes particularly vibrant with the "Xanthopsia" collection—a vision literally tinged with yellow, a metaphor for a new perception, deliberately altered towards optimism and hope, even in the midst of tragic times. Just as Van Gogh sublimated deep pain into radiant light with his vibrant brushstrokes, the revisited approach in this piece reveals the possibility of a dual reading, between shadow and light, absence and presence, existential anguish and spiritual appeasement. This aesthetic dialectic effectively underscores the tensions and harmonies intrinsic to Van Gogh's work—tension between inner suffering and a thirst for beauty, harmony between introspective darkness and bursts of light.
From a semantic perspective, the title "each work is a new beginning" implicitly suggests the precariousness of artistic creation, always open, never complete. This statement constitutes a broader philosophical proposition about existence itself, about the perpetual cycle of rebirth and reinvention that also structures our collective and individual psyche. Expressed in subrealist abstraction, the work appeals to our collective subconscious, where each stroke, each digital or physical curve, represents as much a psychological new beginning as a spiritual impulse toward the unknown. Finally, this multidimensional approach to the work remarkably illustrates the possibilities offered by new digital technologies: far from diverting our gaze from past creations, they broaden our perceptive field and our emotional sensitivity. The dialogue thus established between the traditional physicality of the canvas and the animated digital fluidity opens up an immersive and metaphorical dimension, where the original work is preserved while simultaneously presenting a new aesthetic paradigm. A "digital spirituality" is born—a mystical hybrid space where tradition and modernity are no longer opposed but intimately connected, reinforcing each other to perpetually question what the creative act is.
Thus conceived, this work becomes a poetic laboratory, a perpetual journey towards interiority, but also a living and vibrant tribute to the indomitable capacity of art to transcend the ages. Through this subrealist and animated abstraction, she offers us an invitation to rediscover the original work not only as a fixed aesthetic object but as a dynamic mirror where the fundamental act of looking, creation and renewal perpetually and always differently operates.
Tribute to Van Gogh : « A pair of leather clogs »
see original at : Van Gogh Museum
3840 x 2160 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition