Au sommeil de la montagne, les âmes, 2019
Painting : acrylic · 290 x 333 x 3.5 cm 114.2 x 131.1 x 1.4 inch · Ready to hang
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290 x 333 x 3.5 cm 114.2 x 131.1 x 1.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Initially, this monumental canvas carried the presence of a bull, an animal I had invited into my studio for 12 days. I had painted it asleep, a living mass, an architecture of muscles immersed in silence.
Several years later, I returned to this painting and completely transformed it. Another image emerged from the sleeping bull: a precise allusion to "The Origin of the World."
This rocky landscape presents itself on multiple scales. Depending on your perspective, it can be a mineral fragment examined very closely, or a dizzying chasm several hundred meters deep. Sometimes you can make out a ghost village clinging to the side of a cliff, sometimes the echo of a Tuscan landscape in the distance.
To the original title, "In the Sleep of the Mountain," I added "Souls." This canvas is now inhabited by multiple presences: a blind man, vanities, a witch, a red-backed shrike, a bear, a falcon, a short-eared owl... and others. So many invisible but vibrant souls.
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Charles Belle is a painter whose work is distinguished by a poetic and powerful exploration of nature, often deployed in monumental formats. Starting from reality, the artist goes beyond it to reach the very essence of life. For him, nature is not a subject: it is a state, an energy, a passage towards abstraction.
This is reflected in the film “Beyond the Silences", the result of 16 years of filming in his studio (official JIFA24 selection – Louvre Museum).
In 2023, seven French museums joined forces to present the first major retrospective dedicated to Charles Belle, bringing together more than 1,600 works and offering a cross-sectional view of his career.
Present at the biggest contemporary art fairs — Art Basel, Art Basel Miami, FIAC, Art Brussels, Art Paris, Art on Paper Brussels and FAB Paris — Charles Belle has also been a founding member of the Art Identification Standard (AIS) consortium since 2019.
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