Denis Blondel

Denis Blondel, humanity stripped By Caroline Canault Art critic

It is a feverish, multiple-reading vision where the body transforms and mutates. The strangeness spreads over the entire surface of the composition. The artist's touch works the scrambling effect contributing to a feeling of disorientation.

His portraits with carnal expression leave few defined elements. However, in this dense and unstructured balance, we can distinguish a few figurative references; such as the portrait of the Mona Lisa or a knife ...

Denis Blondel strips as much as he humanizes. His works are an invitation to probe the body and the abysses of the soul, the presence and the absence, the ephemeral and the fragility of human existence.

The darkness becomes clear, with a recurring white tone, evoking the powdered body of a make-up crossed by nothingness. This evocation of the transitory nature of life places his work in an evolutionary mobility. This is where individual elevation and the opening of perspectives emerge.