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    2025 - Stretcher Bars and Eyelets

    For the paintings still in my possession, the stretcher bars have been removed. Eyelets have been added around the edges of the canvas.

    Made between 2005 and 2007

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    In this series, I bring video and painting together in a single work. A moving image is projected onto the canvas, causing the painting to lose its static nature. The canvas comes to life: colors become more intense, and the boundary between projection and paint begins to blur. The result is a hybrid artwork in which two media strengthen one another.

     

    Materials: oil on canvas

    2007 – Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution

    The title is visualized literally: cows walk through a meadow while two projected bars move slowly from left to right across the canvas. A monotonous ticking sound accompanies their motion.

    As the bars shift, the faces of Stalin and Mao light up brightly; on a laptop in the foreground, Hitler appears. The scanning occasionally disrupts the image, accompanied by a menacing tone. The work explores apathy and uncritical herd behavior — how people allow themselves to be swept along under the influence of authority and power

    • Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — video still in which a laptop with a face on its screen stands in a meadow while cows graze in the background.
    • Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — video still in which fragments of the painting slide across the landscape while the laptop remains in the grass and cows move in the background.
    • Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — video still in which parts of the painted face and blue fields appear across the image while the laptop and the meadow remain visible.
    • Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — video still in which a vertical strip of the painting cuts through the image while the laptop and cows remain visible in the grass.
    • Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — video still in which fragments of the blue painted field and the painted face appear along the edges of the image while the laptop stands in the meadow.

    Selection of video stills.

    Watch the video work on MakerTube via this link.

    Living Canvas — Scanning Cows for the Next Revolution — painting with a large upside-down face in which historical figures such as Mao, Hitler and Stalin merge; above the head a blue landscape appears while a laptop showing a face on its screen rests on t

    2006 – The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers

    On the roof of a hotel in the desert, the owner kicks balls toward a goalkeeper.

    Sometimes the goalkeeper catches the ball, but at a certain moment it flies past the goal. The keeper sprints after it and plunges down. The hotelier laughs at his fall. Moments later, a new goalkeeper appears to continue the game, as if he were easily replaceable. The work highlights the alienation of modern humanity: through an excess of wealth, we lose touch with fundamental human values.

    Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — painting of a football goal in a desert-like landscape; helicopters move through the scene while white line drawings and circular traces indicate possible movements of the ball and players.
    • Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — video still showing a goalkeeper standing in front of the goal while a helicopter appears above the field.
    • Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — video still in which the goalkeeper catches a ball in front of the goal against the painted landscape.
    • Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — video still in which the goalkeeper jumps sideways to stop a ball while the painted landscape remains visible.
    • Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — video still in which a helicopter flies low across the goal while the goalkeeper stands in the center.
    • Living Canvas — The Luxury of Replaceable Goalkeepers — video still in which the helicopter moves closer to the foreground while the goal and painted landscape remain visible in the background.

    Selection of video stills.

    Watch the video work on MakerTube via this link.


    2005 – ‘Happy Beating Heart’ versus ‘The Whistlers’

    The “characters” in this work are lines. The red line is the Happy Heartbeat line — you can hear the heart beating faster.

    The other lines are the Whistlers: each time they appear, they whistle Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python. Eventually, a kind of attack takes place. The theme is terrorism — the tension between lightness and threat.

    • Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — video still in which a green line is drawn across the zebra crossing as a trace of movement in the street scene.
    • Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — video still where coloured lines appear along the pavement and zebra crossing as trajectories through the scene.
    • Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — video still where several coloured lines intersect, suggesting movement within the quiet street setting.
    • Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — video still in which a red heart-shaped object appears from behind the corner of the building next to the zebra crossing.
    • Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — video still in which the red heart becomes more visible within the street scene while the traffic light and zebra crossing remain in the foreground.

    Selection of video stills.

    Watch the video work on MakerTube via this link.

    Living Canvas — “Happy Beating Heart” versus “The Whistlers” — painting of an empty street scene with a zebra crossing and a traffic light on a black-and-yellow pole; the perspective leads toward a building with a window in which a second traffic light ap

    2005 – Nu descendant par un ascenseur

    This work is a contemporary interpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912).

    I created two versions: a painting and a spatial piece. On the canvas, the viewer sees an elevator descending, represented by colorful, moving horizontal and vertical bands. The painted fragments are stills from the video. Each time a frame from the film passes over its corresponding painted section, the colors subtly light up.

    Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — painting in which a nude female figure is constructed from overlapping transparent rectangles and colour fields; the figure appears as a layered collage of body fragments within an architectural space.
    • Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — video still where the painted body remains visible while digital colour blocks slide across the image, temporarily covering parts of the figure.
    • Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — video still where the figure is distorted by shifting transparent colour fields that divide the body into layered segments.
    • Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — video still in which the body remains partially visible while green and blue colour planes dominate the image.
    • Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — video still where the fragments of the body align again and the figure briefly becomes more recognizable.
    • Living Canvas — Nu descendant par un ascenseur — video still in which darker colour blocks and transparent rectangles move across the image, causing the figure to partially disappear again.

    Selection of video stills.

    Watch the video work on MakerTube via this link.


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