Sentences short, incisive, entered into a rapid movement, even brutal. Phrases limits of the injunction: ... slogans slogans, words dropped, striking, penetrating minds, sign up supports, canvas or paper without a frame, hung on the walls. Technique "poor" rudimentary color palette restricted: yellow, black, red, orange ...
A pictorial grammar thus reduced to extreme simplicity, "Low tech" as George himself says Autard. A painting for all ...
A pictorial grammar thus reduced to extreme simplicity, "Low tech" as George himself says Autard. A painting for all ...
Stories paintings ...
Yet the work presented by George Autard, although it denies it, have with painting and its history, a relationship more complex than it seems.
In each area proposed by the painter resurfaces the history of this medium.
Just look carefully at first misleading treatment of these surfaces will then enter the raging tempers subtle play of depth, uses overlapping geometric forms, collage overlays employees refer to the history of modern painting, the avant-garde, cubism and constructivism, that of Expressionism abstract and minimalism ...
As Monet's water lilies tickled in this series of diptych that diverted the famous water lilies, flowers untouchable history of painting ... Autard built his painting, taking the foot-cons Greenberg the great theorist of Minimalism pictorial. On the one hand, by the use of the written signifier becomes the signified, but also offering a painting where one finds the illusionistic effects of a third dimension, effects complained loudly that Greenberg and his followers.
Autard causes the paint, fighting and abusing the surface, whether canvas or paper.
It would be too easy and too easy to equate the movement Autard "Bad painting" of the eighties, one of whose most famous representatives was Julian Schnabel, director since past.
He certainly "non-painting", but does in no way connected to this movement. The roots are deeper, he must look further afield affiliations, Suprematism, as we have seen previously.
Autard George is one of those rare artists whose work is a parent within the Body Art. He introduced some practices from the painting: Pollock, Klein, Japanese Gutai movement ...
His paintings are like so many reactions, proposals by the body ...
Autard grazes Pollock when he engaged in battles battles with his paintings, the technique of dripping. not afraid of the accident, imperfection ...
Through its "prostration" prayer practices from Tibetan monks who is crawling on the floor and presented as "Wall paintings" he shares with Yves Klein, the taste of footprints through the famous series of "footprints", but also the movement Gutai, including Kazuo Shiraga. A
Another landmark, Yves Klein was one of the first black belt in judo in France, and Autard practice it, jutsju. Their works are marked by all the great spirituality that George has a Autard everyday with Buddhism.
Zen spirit and punk attitude
Zen Punk! Two terms with the apparent contradiction, we gladly would classify as competing in a dictionary. Punk and Zen are not contradictory. They are particularly suited to the production of pictorial George Autard, Zen spirit in this quest for economy of means and the right gesture. Punk Attitude in this company "trashy" deconstruction and reinterpretation gives us the painter. Punk and Zen in the adoption of low tech meet in the simplicity of implementation and its uniqueness.
Also, this quest for spirituality in Buddhism seems disturbing, surprising and at odds with the violence that radiates her paintings to the layman.
But this violence is not incompatible with spirituality. This violence is expulsion. In one of his paintings, the artist proclaims "My black is not sad, he is violent." What we
is then subjected to this violence which projects in front of our eyes, we then we snatch grip in the interval created by the look ... It is worth thinking about the gesture.
While the canvas, the surface is initiated its importance in the work of Georges Autard. But the before and after are just as essential.
forward to this level, after offering the oceanic feeling of relaxation ... From there the painting medium, which is pressed onto the support ...
In "Yabusame" shooting Japanese archery ritual, where the rider, after running his horse at full gallop, uncheck his arrow at a target at the cry of "In yo in yo 'that can be translated literally," light and darkness. " Cry slogan making, making
body ... And if it was necessary to analyze the creative process of Georges Autard, there'll have first meditation, concentration, tension and relaxation. The canvas becomes the receptacle of this tension.
Do not see what you see ...
entries expels the painter's body, his meditation such as slogans, symbols or punctuations are the equal of painting; eased any temptation Mannerist and processed in a simple vocabulary.
reproduction, variation of the same term in the series "Paradise Now" or "Wisdom and Compassion" proposed here, assimilate into the cantilation mantras. say, repetition, spoken endlessly for centuries, the prayer wheels turned continually by the monks or pilgrims to the prayers that continue for a moment. This repetition imperative that borders on the curse, taking place at George Autard through a single short sentence, modulated by color, shape, size, effects arising from the same depths matrix creative, unique and universal.
Words are sometimes duplicated, ironed ... Duplication, writing, slogan we refer to the impermanence of all things, of all being ... The
will always like that ... unlike
Autard Thus George has already begun since childhood of his art, the long and inexorable dance of life to come ...
exhibition from 03 June (opening) at August 31, 2010
KUNSTBÜROBERLIN Uhlandstrasse 162
http://www.kunstbueroberlin.de/kdgalerie_autard.html 
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