Ce qui nous retient, 2023
Painting : oil, acrylic · 50 x 40 x 2 cm 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
€3,000
3 000 €
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About the artwork
Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
Authenticity
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
50 x 40 x 2 cm 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
53 x 43 x 3 cm 20.9 x 16.9 x 1.2 inch
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Description
In this diptych, Jules Atarax explores human presence through two silent figures, placed in a state of visual and emotional tension. The silhouettes respond to each other through the interplay of shadows, luminous halos, and contrasting colors, creating an invisible relationship between the two characters.
Light, a central element in the artist's work, seems to emanate from the bodies themselves. The vibrant contours, highlighted by colored halos, accentuate this feeling of inner energy and presence. The figures appear both close and distant, like two fragments of the same story.
Conceived as a diptych, the whole can be presented side by side to reveal the relationship between the two works, but each canvas also retains its autonomy and can be exhibited separately.
With this composition, Jules Atarax continues his pictorial research around light, the human figure and inner depth.
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Presentation
A Belgian artist, Jules Atarax develops a body of work at the crossroads of poetry and painting. Originally a writer, he discovered in pictorial practice an organic extension of writing: a transition from language to matter, from the intellect to sensation.
Self-taught, he has progressively oriented his work toward a demanding exploration of figure and light. Nourished by the heritage of modernity—from Van Gogh to Matisse, from Turner to Soutine—he now constructs a style of painting based on the mastery of values and the tension between shadow and clarity. His current work revolves around light as an inner energy. Through female figures depicted in profile, he explores a silent presence, an inhabited serenity, a contained joy. The deliberately reduced palette and the rigorous structure of the masses reinforce this impression of unity and concentration.
Developed within the Galerie Dantesque, his work has already found collectors in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Italy, and the Netherlands. His painting does not seek a spectacular effect, but rather accuracy: a light that reveals rather than imposes.
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