Échecs par Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Circa 1997
Pascal Therme

Photography : color edition, pigment ink, HD print, fine art print, archival pigment print

65 x 55 x 0.3 cm 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch

$751
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Numbered and limited to 12 copies

2 copies available

Signature

Signed artwork

Authenticity

Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the artist

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Dimensions cm inch

65 x 55 x 0.3 cm 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Not framed


Tags

Street art

Composition

Chess

Black

Yellow

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

This captivating work features a harmonious grid of twenty individual images, each enclosed in a square frame. Dominated by warm hues of yellow, red, and black, it evokes a sense of warmth and energy. Each image reveals a unique illustration, ranging from stylistic human figures to abstract symbols. Sharp black outlines add depth to the vibrant forms and draw the eye to each distinctive detail. This composition recalls influences from tribal art and ancient patterns, creating a fascinating blend of modernity and tradition. The bold use of color enriches the visual texture, while the rigorous distribution of panels brings a balanced structure to the whole. This work embodies a visual narrative where each vignette offers a new and engaging interpretation. This composition was created from photographs of elements drawn by Jean Charles de Castelbajac and assembled according to my artistic direction, in order to produce this stylistically happy work, on a yellow background, playful and joyful, evoking the Arthurian legend, or, more prosaically, a story from the Middle Ages with princesses, towers, dragons, horses and knights.

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Pascal Therme, Échecs par Jean Charles de Castelbajac
France  • 1964

Presentation

Following his studies in Letters, in 1988, Pascal Therme was associated for his photography in Parisian fashion, alongside the Couturiers and the most prestigious brands. Throughout this period, he pursued a visual creation based on experiences of deconstruction of the image. These experiments apply to all subjects treated by painting, Nudes, Portraits, Landscapes, Architectures, Interiors.

The object is a renewal of the vision and is based on the experience of David Hockney, The Grand Canyon, on the legacy of Cubism through a certain multi-perspective, on the formal legacy of the New Wave of Cinema. His montages, built by numerous photographs, autonomous, sequenced elements recompose a unit, making Image, wish to escape the unique perspective (camera obscura) and decisive time, founding couple of all photography, in a different approach to what makes an image , photography.

His compositions have used several media such as the Polaroid SX70 and its 35mm, then the ektachrome and the 105mm, the 180mm and are placed under the aegis of the Wisdom of Eros, a concept articulating the plastic artist and the man of letters, of being, in an original, even native writing.

Using the montage of these elements, driven by different guiding principles, multiple occurrences, Pascal Therme seeks to reintegrate the Secret Harmony of the Dream (a midsummer night's dream) through the discontinuity of the world, in a broken mirror , then redialed. This discontinuity creates a rhythm, so much so that the montages always seem to renew themselves, to wave, to breathe. A part of the Living seems inscribed there, between Apollo and Dionysos.

These montages are offered here in the form of quality prints, in various sizes.

A fragile beauty, in these precarious balances, has worked. This always experimental work was based on the tempo, the color, the blur and the sharpness, the modulation of the point of view, an interior traveling, different points of view and perspectives, seeking through the territories, to build a Unit, to approach the musical harmony of the dream in its visual correspondences. All an inspired plastic work.

These photographic paintings offer a Poetics of Space and Time recomposed, rediscovered, in dazzling colors.

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