Visual Art
Nathalie Pirotte
A theme as the hybridization of commercial and popular images drawn from the media and copy-paste for the realization of portraits such as evocations.
The masks, here are made as pseudo-collages ( “pretended” cut collage but painted) The mask is a recurring motif, symptom, anachronistic displaced thing. It is a conceptual reminiscence. There is something pathetic about the masks which are like “capable of anything”. Mask is something, a form, that returns through cultures and ages and survives its own death. Painted as a collage in the artwork it creates a particular spatiality, enhancing the geology of the construction and the mutating aspect of someone as well. Combining intimism with hyper-mediated production, abstraction and figuration, the gesturality of pasta and the almost watercolored descriptive form.it highlights the geology of the construction assembly of various faces, variuos aspects of someone. Masks of thick gestures of paint paste, traces; pink or black impasto, symbolic on a deliberately very fine, airy and flat material. Elsewhere, an insulating invading space, of almost monochrome colors, enveloping the subject, the background and the figure becoming entangled with a sort of melancholy .