Description
This "Kinetic Celebration" stands at the intersection of several legacies—that of Van Gogh's Pardon at Pont-Aven, itself born from a diligent observation of Émile Bernard's work, and the perpetual contemporary renaissance brought about by mixed media. This project offers an artistic expression that combines ritual, subrealist abstraction, and digital hybridity, developing both a visual poetics and a philosophical approach to art.
- Historical Anchorage and Mystical Vocation
– In 1888, Van Gogh drew inspiration from Émile Bernard's "The Pardon" to produce on paper the only surviving work from his period with Gauguin. – The spontaneity of the line, the lack of depth, and the vibration of watercolor fascinate him: it is an anchor point where the alteration of the medium over time becomes itself a creative motif.
– “Kinetic Celebration” extends this quest for infinite creativity; each movement of the digital brush is an opportunity for reinvention.
– Subrealist and Unconventional Abstraction
– Subrealism: a form of “beyond reality” that does not seek to reproduce dreams (on classical realism) but to reveal the immanent strangeness of reality.
– A play of freehand cut-out shapes; the elimination or crushing of perspective; an emphasis on the materiality of the gesture: everything contributes to unfolding a pictorial space beyond figuration.
– The result is a non-literal homage, where the original composition becomes a matrix of infinite variations. - "Kinetic Celebration": Sacred Movement
– Minimalist, frame-by-frame animation makes the painting vibrate: the folds become organic, the quivering of the silhouettes replaces figuration to embrace a visceral representation of these cyclical movements.
– Life itself—with its perpetual movement and organic rhythm—is sacred; animation becomes a modern rite celebrating impermanence.
– Philosophers like Bergson have shown how lived duration escapes the frozen moment: this piece metaphorizes this flux.
– Hybrid Technique and "Digital Archaeology"
– Acrylic painting on canvas: welcoming spontaneous gestures, traces of matter, physical textures.
– Photography and digitization: each brushstroke is documented, manually cut out to become a digital layer.
– Frame-by-frame animation: minimalist aesthetic, contemplative loop; a "post-digital remix" where the tangible and the virtual converse. - Xanthopsia Collection: Utopia of Yellow Vision
– Yellow as a filter altering perception: symbolic of a saving light in the darkness, of a positivity forged through hardship.
– Each work in the series offers an "other point of view" on Van Gogh, instilling a reflective distance around duality (shadow/light, tradition/innovation).
– Xanthopsia becomes a metaphor for an expanded consciousness, inviting the viewer to relearn how to see.
– Philosophical Level: Duality, Authenticity, and Accessibility
– Duality and Coexistence: conscious/unconscious, material/immaterial, individual/collective. The work reads like a diagram of the harmonic tensions that permeate all beings and forms.
– Aura and Reproducibility (Benjamin): Digitization brings the "aura" of the original into play, but adds a ritualization of the digital medium; the piece gains accessibility while preserving a singular presence.
- Contemporary Art and Ritual Sense
– The work establishes a visual ritual where meditation on movement and color becomes praxis: a suspended moment, a perceptive trance.
– It questions the social function of art: no longer merely a mirror, the work acts as an interface—a “medium”—connecting past and present, tradition and innovation, eye and tool.
– By reinventing Van Gogh, we also reinvent the very act of painting and animating, opening art to new levels of sensory and reflective experience.
In summary, “Kinetic Celebration” and the Xanthopsia collection elevate the reinterpretation of Van Gogh to the rank of a contemplative and philosophical epic. They testify to the subversive and poetic power of technical hybridization while offering a meditation on time, altered perception, and the role of the spectator-ritualist in the vastly shifting field of contemporary art.
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3840 x 2160 px / 4k MP4 / 116 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition
see original at :Galleria d'Arte Moderna - Milano