SUNSETS

By living in the Southwest, we liked to envisage the landscape not any longer as a trip, from one motel to another, as in our TV paintings, but from a fixed point view, watching the bright variations of the sky, and the clouds in course of formation and deformation. We began by doing watercolors of small format, formed by stripes of colours: each day a sunset. Then we brushed large formats of acrylic paintings. The two first ones allowed us to locate the frame of our research. In fact, one seemed to us ambiguous enough to have the appearance of geometric abstraction, the other, more lyric, seemed too much like a landscape.

It is in the dialectic of these two proposals that we wanted to get involved, being on “le fil du rasoir” (on a razor-edge). 

We continued this series with a spray gun, giving a barely observable curve to the stripes of colour, using only transparent pigments, painted in glacis without any addition of white.

The Sunsets speak about colours, the Clouds carved in marble, about forms. Both distant of their referent, they leave place in the imagination, and try to approach what could be today a landscape painting.

“ If there was something of the sun in the eye, never it would see it ” 

Goethe quoted by Aby Warburg

J+C, 2006