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DNA (Gilbert BARBAT): A geometry of mystery

Far from mathematical certainties, it is a geometry of mystery that ADN offers us. Real name Gilbert BARBAT, this science enthusiast has always been fascinated by the immensity of the universe and of living things of which we only perceive a tiny part. Like this night sky which, more than a roof of stars, is in fact only a parcel of infinity. Like also this material which teems with bacteria and micro-organisms invisible to the naked eye. A myriad of worlds to explore that the artist surveys with his brushes.

This former cabinetmaker therefore reuses the technique of marquetry today but in painting, tracing with extreme meticulousness colored lines on sheets of watercolor paper which he then cuts and glues together, producing ruptures and optical effects that are not not reminiscent of kinetic art. A transition to painting which allows him to vary the colors, he who once had to be satisfied with the limited shades of wood. This method then allows him to represent his vision of movement, of an object splitting the atmosphere, or of any other natural phenomenon that our eye cannot perceive.

His line art also takes the form of constellations, where he again confronts his artist's gaze and his imagination with distant infinity.

What matters to Gilbert BARBAT is therefore not to represent reality, nor to claim to produce a scientific document, but rather to “paint a resentment".

Amazed by astrophysics, the human body, bacteriological research, all these sciences of the infinitely large and the infinitely small, Gilbert BARBAT thus traces in painting the abstract essence of the universe and of life. Normal for this artist who signs his work with the acronym DNA.