Art news: Claude Viallat, contemporary art
Among the contemporary artists and specially among the group supports/surfaces Claude Viallat has always stand out from. Claude Viallat aesthetic reseach offers a distinct position from the conceptual art movement. His work is extremely visual and intellectual, and of extraordinary modernity!
“Painting: a tremor, an inner uncertainty, a commitment to change, to infringe, to subvert knowledge and consciousness.
You cannot find the strength anywhere but in innocence, in carefreeness, in spontaneity.
Working without wanting, without knowing, just using the mechanism of gestures, and the unexpected surpassing of oneself.
Being fragile, porous, undecided, and troubled. Keeping a half-awake half-asleep eye, hanging to a running dream. Becoming the hand that acts without any control of the will or desire.” Claude Viallat
Art book: Claude Viallat
Since the 1960s, Claude Viallat has been moved to revisit the geneology of abstract painting and the seduction of art informel, identifying a primitive form, with distinct and inimitable characteristics that are essential and almost hypnotic. He long ago abandoned the verticality of the easel, painting on untreated canvas on the floor with a mix of gelatins, pigments, and water, and began to direct his attention to beaches and streets, places not typically designated for artistic attention.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.