Description
My project is a process-based artwork merging art, history, and philosophy around a central concept: the **organic city as a living, psychic organism**. Starting with Van Gogh's "Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières," I deconstruct and reassemble the work through a multifaceted lens:
1. Architectural: A tribute to the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.
2. Technical: A palimpsest blending acrylic paint and digital animation.
3. Stylistic: Subrealist abstraction and gestural expressionism.
4. Thematic: Xanthopsia (yellow vision) as a metaphor for a utopian perception.
The final artwork is not a static object, but a **philosophical device** that sparks a conversation about time, creation, and the hybrid nature of our reality.
1. Transposed Organic Architecture: The Totemic City**
*The work as organism: Like Wright's architecture, my work is born from the encounter between the spirit of Van Gogh (the place), my approach (the inhabitant), and contemporary tools. It becomes a living organism.
*"Treeskulltown," a utopian cartography**: This totemic city is not a literal representation, but a conceptual cartography in constant motion. The animation shows a structure that grows, transforms, and breathes. It is a utopia of process, not form.
2. The Subrealist Palimpsest: Archaeology of Creation:
At the heart of my approach, the palimpsest technique makes the creative process visible by superimposing temporal and conceptual layers:
1.Original: Van Gogh's work and its historical weight.
2.Material: Acrylic paint, the physical and tangible gesture.
3.Digital: Animation that awakens the still image within a dreamlike and subconscious logic.
This layering echoes the complexity of Van Gogh, excavating the underlying tensions and harmonies of his work. The duality of my work (physical/digital) reflects that of the artist (exaltation/melancholy).
3. The Philosophical Conversation: The Artwork as a "Device":
The concept shifts attention from the finished object to the process of meaning-making.
*Activation of the viewer: The artwork is a "device." Its perpetual motion prevents a single interpretation and invites active contemplation, weaving connections between the layers (Van Gogh, painting, animation).
*Internal and external dialogue: The conversation is twofold: external, with art history (Van Gogh, Wright), and internal, acting as a meditative support for time, memory, and perception.
4. Xanthopsia and Hybrid Culture: A Perceptive Utopia:
*The Yellow Vision as a Conceptual Filter: Xanthopsia is the philosophical filter of the project. It is a conscious decision to "find positivity," to see the potential for growth (the organic city) in the ruins of the past (the deconstructed artwork).
*Hybridization as a Language: Emblematic of digital culture, the artwork is inherently hybrid, existing at the intersection of the material (canvas) and the immaterial (code). This process is a metaphor for our time, speaking the language of remixing, layering, and transformation.
Conclusion: This project transcends mere homage to become a philosophical proposition. It reactivates the legacy of Van Gogh and Wright as living materials. By combining organic architecture, a subrealist palimpsest, and hybrid techniques, the work is both an **allegory on perception** (Xanthopsia) and a **demonstration of creation as a dynamic process**. It is a mirror held up to our contemporary consciousness, capable of generating new harmonies from the tension between past and present, real and virtual.
Tribute to Vincent van Gogh : The Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières
collection : Ashmolean Museum
2160 x 3840 px / 4K MP4 / 194 Mo / 8 fps / 1/1 édition