Jules Atarax

We could see in him a modern Dante, a Dante who would have seen himself catapulted in the two-thousand years, because Jules Atarax is first of all a poet whose publication of the first collection of poems "Ataraxia and Desperate Nebulae" is scheduled for the end of 2019. .

It is in fact late in the day that Atarax started painting, more precisely after a promise made during his writing phases. He discovers in painting another mechanism, much more liberating than writing which allows him to move from a rather intellectual field, sometimes extremely harsh to an organic field, an awakening to gestures, to color, to sensations in the true act, in the taste of instinct.

Admirer of fauvists like Soutine or Matisse, impressionists like Van Gogh or Monet, abstracts with Fréderic Benrath and Zao Wou-ki, romantics, Gaspard Friedrich, William Turner, or even Art Brut with Soutter and Basquiat, Atarax seeks to put extra soul in his work: The anima.

A dimension which according to the artist is too often underestimated in artistic conception.

In its execution, Atarax's gait is similar to Pollock's dripping, or Kazuo Shigara's surfing; dance, liberation through painting.

Everything can be considered. Jules Atarax is very fond of scratching his works, putting on them devious, terrifying smiles, writing in them, bringing them to a festival of colors.

It often results in visions that are sometimes soft, sometimes harsh, and a great deal of expressiveness emerges. Something both real and unreal ... neoexpressionism?

Having followed no particular artistic course, the artist himself qualifies his work as Degenerate Art, but free ...