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Jean-Roch Klethi
France
Artist highlights
- Local Artist
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Linen
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 19.7x19.7in
About this artwork
This piece is made with a piece of recovered jute bag, partly unwoven, glued with gesso, which is the coating for preparing the support for painting. Everything is then colored with acrylic paint then with oil paint, partly misted or sprayed with a toothbrush.
I had already made an “Icarus” about ten years ago. He set off full of confidence in his momentum, against a backdrop of a turquoise blue sky. This time, it is the color of ashes and a few… embers are still glowing in its wings... We will draw whatever conclusions we want... Any connection with the international situation is naturally not completely fortuitous either.
I had already made an “Icarus” about ten years ago. He set off full of confidence in his momentum, against a backdrop of a turquoise blue sky. This time, it is the color of ashes and a few… embers are still glowing in its wings... We will draw whatever conclusions we want... Any connection with the international situation is naturally not completely fortuitous either.
Jean-Roch Klethi
France
Credentials
- Local Artist
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
The materials I use—most often reclaimed textiles—already carry within them tensions, a weariness, a memory. They don't allow themselves to be molded: they resist, elude me, maintain their own directions. One must negotiate with them. As soon as they are fixed to the support, something is lost. Constrained, the material no longer moves. It flattens, deprived of the momentum that animated it. Its presence remains, but as if suspended.
This is where color comes in. It acts as a developer. With color, the fibers visually detach from the background, gain depth, seem to rise and move. What appeared frozen regains its intensity, begins to evolve in space. It's not about depicting anything, but about transfiguring what is already there. Color doesn't create any form. It shifts the gaze, reveals a depth, an energy, a movement already latent. Through it, what seemed inert comes back to life.
This is where color comes in. It acts as a developer. With color, the fibers visually detach from the background, gain depth, seem to rise and move. What appeared frozen regains its intensity, begins to evolve in space. It's not about depicting anything, but about transfiguring what is already there. Color doesn't create any form. It shifts the gaze, reveals a depth, an energy, a movement already latent. Through it, what seemed inert comes back to life.
Jean-Roch Klethi
Icarus
$620
