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world among the others …
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inks of colour, watercolour and indian ink on paper, Lionel BORLA
creates a painting-writing where the signs suggest representations
and interpretations. The recurrent graphic entity called "universal
silhouette" dialogues with stylised silhouettes of music instruments,
architecture, bulls, spots, landscape… |
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My desire is to reduce the elements of imagination to such a degree
of simplicity and formal stylisation, as one obtains signs which
force and visual impact create an universal language. Universal
language in the sense that it can be read by any spectator and in
a particular way by each one of them" |
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stylisation of masses and silhouettes allows consequences and multiple
interpretations That proliferate. To be satisfied with an unique
interpretation is completely insufficient and makes the painting
poor. It is necessary to reach a waterfall, an arborescence of consequences. |
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I develop this idea of multiple developments in the works of my
series called "Lyrical abstraction and figurative anecdote " where
the stylised silhouettes dialogue with the informal of the spots.
Masses clearly bounded and complex space have a dialogue. These
opened works present then the beginning of a scenario. They let
the spectator build the suite of the story, or his own stories.
The fields of the possible appear… " |
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the "compositions-accumulations" based on images-logoes, the work
is concentrated on the notion of rhythm. The mobility and the movement
are in the glance of the spectator that goes throught logoes, and
not in the representation. This fundamental notion of rhythm engenders
then the division of time and space, in other words a spatiotemporal
composition. |
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Around this notion of rhythm one discovers that it the music and
architecture that structure my painting. I try so to apply the wealth
of these two arts that i have practised to another mode of expression,
in this particular case the painting, to study it and to transform
the structures of it. The lyric of the graphic writing brings the
irrationality and the poetry in this solid structure that is the
rhythmical composition of space. " |
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these spaces created around a palette of sanguines, ochre and overalls,
the indian ink worked on the feather writes then, inexorably, a
suite of signs which group together around a key idea: the silhouette,
or the representation of masses stylized in a compound space. This
last one is purified and often created by using a single colour.
Colour that qualifies a space, a place, an atmosphere. Around subjects
as music, architecture, bullfighting, lyrical abstraction, Lionel
BORLA creates a word of signs that brings you to thought, a world
among the others. |
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