Occupation: Artist Birth: April 28, 1928 Death: June 6, 1962
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing..
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically ….
The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomeno….
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so power….
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw..
My paintings are only the ashes of my art.
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state..
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation..
Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human b….
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract..
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a dist….
Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form..
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions..
I have written my name on the far side of the sky..
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand….
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like….
I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue..
It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work toward….
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity..
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My….
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood..