Révolution

Revolution is a work that has matured for several years, and that undoubtedly reflects my desire to create meaning as much as a unique abstract form, and to create a link with it. We find in a way here the fusion of many of my previous works: work on the unconscious and in particular automatic writing; as escape from the sacrosanct precept of absolute rationality; the geometric rigor of the codes and rules imposed on us to better control us; a reminder of our primitive origins.
At the same time, I had been working for some time on the abstraction of words in Latin characters in the graffiti style, being one of the last revolutionary artistic movements. I then wanted to play this game by honoring my host culture, Taiwanese society. So I used traditional Chinese characters. This work appeared to me all the more interesting since the first Chinese characters originate in figurative drawings. They thus constituted a first abstractization which did not stop evolving until the simplification by the communist regime of Mao Zedong.
The first sinogram I chose could only be that of "revolution". Humanity has already entered a self-destructive Orwelian world and only, in my opinion, a revolution can still do anything about it. It was also about shaking up the artistic concepts present here in Taiwan, more specifically in Kaohsiung where I live; indeed, there still remains a conformism both in the subjects treated by art and in the way in which they are treated. And disturbing even the rigor of calligraphy was not to displease me.