LAVAFLOW (2024) Painting by Evrard Chaussoy
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Empreinte : Marque laissée par un corps qu’on presse sur une surface.
Empreinte : témoignage vivant d’une existence ée
Empreinte culturelle : les peuples, les cultures, les croyances, les pratiques artistiques voyagent, s’influencent, se mêlent, chacune laissant une empreinte sur l’autre au risque sinon de s’atrophier voir de disparaître.
Evrard Chaussoy reprend la méthode traditionnelle de peinture sur paréo, ainsi que des motifs tapas anciens pour parler de culture et de mémoire.
L’artiste grave ses sujets et motifs dans des planches de bois avant de les enduire de peinture et apposer sur la toile leurs empreintes.
L’oeuvre prend alors forme avec une succession d’empreintes de formes et de couleurs différentes, parfois marquée, parfois effacée, se superposant afin d’ajouter ou de masquer.
Le drapé rappelle le paréo, la tradition, la culture, mais signe surtout la volonté forte de l’artiste de sortir des formats académiques et de s’orienter vers une forme d’art plus contemporaine, laissant à l’observateur l'entière liberté d'interpréter les formes, sans aucune directive ni jugement.
Avec l'exposition « Empreinte», Evrard Chaussoy repousse les limites de sa pratique et explore la relation entre l'art, la tradition et la vie quotidienne et met en avant des préoccupations identitaires liées au développement et à la modernisation.
The Polynesian artist was born in Raiatea in 1980, a paradise island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between Tahiti and Bora Bora. Evrard Chaussoy comes from a family of Chinese origin, his father Joseph Chaussoy is a painter and his mother Marguerite is a seamstress.
Self-taught, he developed a realistic style whose solid colors and contrasts of light leave yet glimpse a whole inner complexity. Inspired by a universal subject, man and his condition, the artist first proceeds by touches which he applies with lively, irregular gestures, always revealing a radiance, an energy around the forms, symbolizing life in each of us.
Because it is indeed the Polynesian, the Polynesian, who populate the paintings of Evrard Chaussoy. Exploring the contrast between the harshness of a life as a fisherman, the wear and tear of a hand that has braided delicate flowers for a lifetime, and the personal, intimate search for serenity, peace, the need for nature, light, of wandering and wide open spaces, the artist points out the beauty of a world that we don't want to see disappear.
Capturing these subtle emotions, once mastered in charcoal, through a lively and imioned painting today, Evrard Chaussoy delivers himself to a contrasting practice, between the large brush strokes, wide of acrylic, almost coarse, and the lightness, the transience of a knife caressing his paintings.
Inspired primarily by the Polynesia he lives in, he draws on what history and traditions have left, to persist at the same time as they contain their breath to give way to Modern times. Having fun as often as possible slipping in details that are unmistakable about what is close to his heart, this committed Artist subtly denounces the shortcomings of this evolving society.
Many say that there is nostalgia in the paintings of Evrard Chaussoy, others will say that there is sensuality. Perhaps it is precisely his view of Polynesian culture or the echo of an island reality where he feels serene?
- Nationality: FRENCH POLYNESIA
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Artists.contemporary.pf
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