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in his studio, march 1989 |
Pastel on paper mounted on canvas 150 x 300 cm |
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Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm |
Oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm |
Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas 284 x 234 cm |
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Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas 234 x 284 cm |
Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas 284 x 310 cm |
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| Jean-Paul Chambas Here you enter a battlefield, where the painter does battle with his own life, with his heritage, where forms do battle with each other, as do colours, in a brawl for survival (the painter’s and also the survival of painting). Despite the luminous precision of certain drawings, Chambas’s problem is not to imitate nature but rather, to quote Aristote, " to complete that which nature was unable to fashion ". Any resemblance between the characters, the subjects and objects with " nature " can only be fortuitous. To compare the sentence that you read as the credits roll up with reality could turn out to be dangerous. And these representations do contain risk and danger.... ... The very substance of the colours - the oil, the pigment - becomes independent. The precisely drawn shapes that it fills can scarcely contain it. It spreads out ; it undercuts the docile decorative function that was ascribed to it in good old realist painting. The colour-substance takes over, it cannot remain still, trespasses on the territory of it neighbours, leaving marks and grooves and scratches. Here and there, an area of thickness disturbs the confort of the flat patches. There is a story in the oil. J-P V. 1987 |
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