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This canvas is arguably the most symbolic in the entire exhibition. A body, severed in two, rises within a silver tunnel amidst a white monochrome. White is associated with purity and transcendence, but also with the pallor of the dead and mourning. Therefore, it represents the death of the body, tired, damaged, split in two by the trials of life. The white wave of death opens a tunnel, with the silver color suggesting purity and purification. The body ascends in this passage, a transition to elsewhere.
It's a painting full of secret pictures. White is when there are no colors of life. It means that you're dead. I painted a big tunnel with a little man cut in half to say that he's dead and he's leaving Earth to go somewhere else. Maybe he's going to the stars?
39.37 x 39.37 in. - Mixed media on canvas
39.37 x 39.37 in. - Mixed media on canvas
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1995 - BAIGNEUSE À LA VAGUE BLANCHE
1995 - BATHER AT THE WHITE WAVE
100 x 100 cm
39.37 x 39.37 in.
Technique mixte sur toile
Mixed media on canvas