Ormi

What planet does the artist ormi come from and in which galaxy does he evolve? After a first life as an artistic director, ORMI deserted the advertising microcosm, to reconnect with his initial vocation as a visual artist, passionate and in love with painting. Painting as object and material, worked in a timeless, physical, almost organic relationship. Thus, like an alchemist in search of absolute artistic transmutation, ORMI constantly engages in secret experimentation, playing with pigments and chemical treatments, constantly seeking to push back the material limits of what can be seen on the canvas. At first glance, the statement is confusing. The use of the technique of gilded backgrounds with gold leaf refers to the tradition of the Byzantine icon, thus reconnecting with the sacred archaeological function of art and the artist. The proposal asserts itself first of all as a series of pious images, where by a radical iconoclastic act, the religious subject is replaced by a variation of representations of the cosmos, like so many new sacred icons of a Great Spinozian Whole, unsurpassable , fascinating, dazzling. At second glance, subtly, superimposed tagged messages are discovered, which irresistibly evoke the calligraphic tradition. Mystical graffiti artist subliminal messages. The whole then constructs a secret story, each fragment of which breaks the serial similarity of the whole and reinforces the singularity of each work. Finally, and paradoxically, it is also in complete darkness that the “Photon" series is fully contemplated and revealed, thanks to a play of luminescence, restoring the sidereal light that emanates from the stars. As if to exorcise the fear of the dark, a process of childish freshness, which refers to the luminous celestial vaults illuminating the ceiling of the children's rooms that we have all stayed in, with an echo which also awakens distant reminiscences of science lessons, in order to also remind us that the light of certain stars which reaches us “here and now" also comes from stars that have now disappeared. Finally, there is something very contemplative in this series, like a sidereal meditation exercise, or even a kind of secular prayer, whose credo could be: “We are all made of stardust".