Gods are events moving
" They paint in Flanders
to deceive the out-side sight ...., people's deceptions snatched me the time
which was granted to me to gaze at god". The artist who's writting this is
called Michel-Ange; getting an old man, he his just coming to understand that
"Art" is at first "Art to see "and whether you adopt such
and such among the differents conceptions of the last mentionned , you will
just see the flat appearance of things or have access to the main point .
Renaud Archambault de Beaune does'nt take care of the
"people's deceptions " , the main point that he tracks by means of
drawings is called by him " thought's fibre " . Apt and meaningful
expression, for this artist working exclusively on non-chemical papers , often
coming from China and Japan, non-pasted, in such a way that if the pen scratch
too much , the ink is immediately diluted in the fibre material of the medium
.The question is that the pen be always successful to go straight to the point
or everything is wasted .
In this case , the instrument looks like the
"Sergent-Major" of the schoolboys of the past . It comes from the
ex-Soviet-Union where they manufacturated it not long ago . Archambault de
Beaune fix his pens to stranges supports , long stalks which permit him to
throw an infinite amount of lines , staying from a good distance , the one who
permit him to get a distant sight , a " stay in the background of the
picture . Does'nt Franz Hals used to get manufactured two meters long brushes ,
so as to work his laces and his faces out of optical illusion trompe-l'oeil,
and like that better conquer the fleeting appearance of things ?
To the abounded touch of the Dutch Master reply today
the Archambault de Beaune's swarming of grey ink lines and commas . Never black
: only the grey variations allowed to reach to the optical mixture mastery
.Beetween the lightest grey and the darkest one the artist estimate the scale
of the perceptible variations at about ten thousand : that is his answer to the
ones who would talk of uniformity in front of his compositions in grey. Such
was Durer's viewpoint , of whom Archambault de Beaune collects willingly the
lessons . Without forget thoses of Lautrec and Degas , others favorites
references .
Is it to the two last mentionned that the artist
borrow some of his subjects , whose eroticism is at once infinitely discreet
and perfectly legible ? . The feminine nudes wear almost all silk-stocking and
suspenders , which is probably not completely innocent , but permit to do a
refined work about contrasts and values . The same kind of information could be
done concerning the " fights " from 1986 - 1987 ( judokas moving ) or
about the series of the " couples " from 1994 1995 .
"To gaze at god " said Michel-Ange . Dont be
mistaken , the question to know if this contemplation is likely religious is
not so important for the pure artist . The divine system of the ancients Greeks
pointed out the gods like " events moving ", and Platon was talking
about a universe in which the reality is the invisible . Here we are : Renaud
Archambault de Beaune who struggle for decades to " fix the ephemeral in
the durable " , thanks to the drawing , has understood that the one who
can grab the events moving has , on this account , the gift to approach the divine
essence . It is not nothing and that's what explain the strange power of
fascination exerted by the works of this artist all the more alone , that his
thought process is obviously out of common .
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| "dans la bibliothèque" encre sur papier Thaïlandais - 90 x 56 - 2014 |
Art-Critic - director of the Art-Newspaper
" Verso - Art et Lettres "
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| "sans titre" - encre sur papier Népalais 70 X 45 - nàvembre 2014 |
