12/11/2010

Olivier de Sagazan, Return to Close, 2008

Looks like he was born in the Congo and studied biology.

Translation from De Sagazan’s site:

“I will address here the question of the artistic process and the genesis of a work of art. My approach works toward a personal application of painted sculpture and some skill as a biologist. This constitutes perhaps the driver and the limit of my interpretation.

I will rapidly give the elements of my theory of sculpture: materials and elements, to then get to the center of the subject: the transfer of ‘forms’ between the body of the artist and the work of art. At the start: an impression, a vague form, poorly seen, at best without a face, sensed again with the gut, something which one wants to draw closer.”

I'm not sure how I ultimately feel about this work. But it is riveting to watch.