2280

2280 compiles a collection of famous comic book covers deconstructed and reconstructed by hand (with felt-tip pen) using an algorithm singular developed by the author. 150 years ago, modern art was applied to undermining the figure, by means of schematization, geometrization, from deconstruction to its obliteration (impressionism, cubism, suprematism…) Since then, artists have played on this tension between abstraction and a figure that has continued to reappear ever since. The kaleidoscopic result of the "2280" is a new type of tension: the figure is almost absent, not not invisible, because it is entirely there, some would say subliminal. If we move away, the motif is sometimes revealed. The figure is rendered absent but At the same time, it is very present in the memory of the tape lover. drawn. The figuration-abstraction tension is therefore played out exclusively in the viewer's head, between the shattered shapes that his eye perceives and its memories. The atomization of this image, a priori unique (most of the book covers show only one image), its geometric dissolution in a grid refers to this other grid, the one that operates within the comic strip boards.