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Cy PAVEL
France
Artist highlights
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Resin on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Artwork framed.
- Dimensions : 25.6x21.3in
About this artwork
The "Parturient" is a subject rarely treated in art. The work may be disconcerting due to the disfigurement of the female figure, but the challenge is to evoke the intensity of this crucial moment of birth; with all the suffering endured by the mother, this paroxysmal moment when the whole body gathers its strength for the expulsion and birth of the child. The two heads in polarity, that of the mother above and that, just sketched, of the child arriving…
at dawn below. A very worked palimpsest, eroded, worn and the limbs disappear in fact. The figuration focuses above all on the trunk, the chest, the belly and the pubis, where the head of the newborn has just emerged. The entire canvas is crossed by an intense graphic and pictorial network that makes one of space and body. The face of the suffering woman in labor, barely recognizable in the effort and pain, echoes the still-ghostly head of the child. A face has just produced its double...
Cy PAVEL
France
Credentials
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
Visual artist born in 1956, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Agrégé d'Arts plastiques. Very early on, I exhibited neo-expressionist painting that moved away from "narrative figuration". The first Couples (or Duos) established a dialectical staging within the painting, where masculine-feminine tensions, dialogue and confrontation, masks and figures, and the reversibilities of desire are played out. Since 1993, my work has paved the way for Palimpsests and Brûlées. This approach questions the memory of painting, its materiality, and the threats of its disappearance in the face of time's trials. At the same time, I teach at the university in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Plastic Arts. In 2009, a retrospective at the Espace des Congrès in Villejuif will demonstrate this approach, while affirming my anchoring to the figurative body in Duos, Solos, Curiosities, and Fauns. I am represented by the GENERAL ART ZONE gallery in Les Sables d'Olonne.
