Tezos

Between Two Worlds : Xanthopsia 133

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Description

Philosophical Core: Dialectic of Dualities - Conscious vs. Unconscious: The abstract transposition of poplars into organic/nebulous forms materializes the interface between perceptible reality (conscious) and mental landscapes (unconscious), inspired by Jungian theories. - Tradition vs. Digital: The homage goes beyond the visual citation to question the materiality of art. The physical canvas symbolizes family roots (stability), while the digital animation evokes the flow of creative work (movement). - Xanthopsia as Meta-Metaphor: The dominance of yellow—the color of light and anguish in Van Gogh—becomes an allegory of resilience: extracting clarity from darkness, a mirror of my life/art balance. Hybrid Methodology: Digital Archaeology - Technological Palimpsest: - Layer 1 (Tradition): Gestural impasto on canvas, capturing expressionist energy - Layer 2 (Transition): Manual photo-clipping → digital overlay, evoking the deconstruction of certainties - Layer 3 (Innovation): Frame-by-frame animation in digital painting, creating a dreamlike time - Defined Subrealism: Fusing Style: - Lyrical abstraction (pure emotion) - Surrealist disturbances (dreamlike distortions) - Aesthetic glitch created manually (digital artifacts as modern wounds) Cultural Context: The Artwork as a Post-Internet Artifact - Remix as Resistance: Repurposing a canonized masterpiece is part of the post-digital subculture, where visual sampling becomes digital sanctification. - Tactility vs. Virtual: The texture of the digitized acrylic (macro photography) interacts with the digital smoothness—a conflict between the desire for physical contact and digital immersion. The pixelated or stretched poplars in interpolation evoke the degradation/regeneration of digital memories, paralleling my identity reconstruction. Resonant Van Gogh: Amplified Dualities The original work already crystallized tensions: - Verticality of the trunks (order) vs. swirling sky (chaos) - Provençal nostalgia vs. psychological crisis My reinterpretation radicalizes these dualities: - Xanthopic yellow radiates from the shadowy areas, embodying the "forced positivity" of connected societies Conceptual Impact This practice of "speculative archaeology": - Demonstrates that digital technology does not erase the manual, but records its gesture (digitized brushstrokes = fossils of presence) - Makes minimalist animation a contemporary equivalent of Van Gogh's vibrations: 8 frames/second replacing convulsive brushstrokes - Positions the artist as an interdimensional conduit: the contouring hand acts as a medium between the 19th and 21st centuries Tribute to Van Gogh : « The Poplars at Saint-Rémy » 2160 x 3840 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition see original at :Cleveland Museum of Art