When the artist begins the next pictorial gesture, when the canvas to come is composed, there is an inner emptiness. This silence of the spirit, this availability are suitable to let the body of feelings be put in movement. All reference points of thought and belief disappear and the painter can immerse himself
in art, connect with what is alive in him to rediscover it. Lionel Breistroff’s experience in painting is precisely the implementation of other dimensions of his perception. At the beginning, there is an intuition, a call towards a certain color. Everything then revolves around the right presence that allows this intuition to lead the dance. The mind fades away and the gesture unfolds, sometimes vivid and powerful, sometimes imperceptible. The painting enters in movement.
The forms that emerge on the canvas call us but do not give themselves. They remain moving, between matter and evanescence. They send us back to ourselves while suggesting multitudes of possible niverses, in oneself and outside oneself, inviting our view and all our being to rediscover what animates it. In this dialogue with the work can reinvent our relationship to the world. Looking at the painting becomes a time of full presence.
Charlotte SEGUIA