Corpus Painting Justin Liam O'Brien

First book in French dedicated to the American artist Justin Liam O'Brien, This work brings together a very recent series of paintings, narrative as in its habit, featuring characters in spaces where life merges daily life of the artist as well as old painting. His characters often have the features of the artist or his relatives, and their bodies with lines curved and smooth-skinned, are painted in flat colors, in a palette frank, with very little modeling. Part of a line of queer artists, O'Brien addresses the topics of identity, isolation, sadness and humor, in a changing world. "What does painting essentially tell? narrative by Justin O'Brien? What, who does she believe in? Perhaps a world of men united by the idea of ​​loving redemption, a queer community of disciples of whom he would be the “creator”: portraits of young men, friends of the painter, his emotional community, all connected by hand signals to the fingertips, hands that have the rhetorical expressiveness of religious painting. » Laurent Goumarre « Corpus Painting » by Semiose éditions offers an editorial collection entirely dedicated to painting. In 48 pages, bound in a beautiful book style, each of the works focuses on a series of paintings precisely chosen, completed with a text in French and English signed by a personality of the art world. An invitation to dive into painting, to understand the springs of a series, to contemplate a series of images, with the same devotion and passion that one has for altarpieces or painted icons.