Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Élévation Dissoute, 2025
Painting : acrylic · 80 x 80 x 2 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch · Ready to hang
€3,160
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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
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
80 x 80 x 2 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
83 x 83 x 4 cm 32.7 x 32.7 x 1.6 inch
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Description
1 - Description of the work
"Dissolved elevation" installs an atmosphere in suspension on a black canvas. In the upper half, a cloud of pearlescent whites, silvery grays, and pale blues unfolds in irregular lace, like a cloud caught at the moment it is dissolving. Beneath this cloud, diffused halos — powdered rose, sulfur yellow — illuminate the interior background, like a remnant of daylight that would persist behind the matter. In the lower part, slate gray and glossy black streaks, marked by fine marbling, accumulate and then drain downwards to the bottom of the painting. An anthracite form, sinuous and vertical, rises in the center like smoke or a presence; in the upper right, a white and blue fragment, isolated, seems to leave the composition in the manner of a bird.
2 - Critical Analysis Attached to Thresholds & Passages, the work adopts a contemplative register: the threshold is not a crossed boundary, but a prolonged state of transition. Three passages play simultaneously within it: • Density vs ephemerality: the dark streaks from the bottom weigh, while the cloud from the top dissolves into the black. • Shadow vs clarity: the light does not come from the outside; it emanates from the background, as filtered by an atmosphere charged with memory. • Ascent vs fall: the drains descend, the central form ascends: the painting holds together the two movements. "Dissolved elevation" proposes an idea of elevation that is not conquering: one elevates oneself by lightening.
3 - Artistic and Spiritual Perspective
3.1 - In the work of GABAN The work shares with Chamber of altitude the inspiration of Tuscan skies and their cloud strata, but transposes the light into a nocturnal register. With its black background inhabited by diffused light, it also dialogues with Archipel de rémanence, where light continues to act after the event: here, it retreats, leaving behind an atmosphere.
3.2 - Artistic Parentage The luminous mists and the dissolution of forms link the work to a painting of the atmosphere, where the light eventually absorbs the motif. The emergence of clarity within a dark background makes it also appear as a meditative abstraction, where the pictorial space becomes breath; the streaks and marbling confer upon the cloud a physical presence here.
3.3 - Spiritual Resonance: The mystical tradition, with Pseudo-Denis the Areopagite, speaks of a "darkness more than luminous": a darkness that is not absence, but an excess of clarity for the human gaze. The canvas seems to offer an image of this. The black does not engulf anything; it welcomes. Elevation is not conquered there by effort; it happens through divestment — when what weighs is deposited and what remains becomes light enough to rise.
4 - Strengths of the work — Conclusion An evening atmosphere of great poetry, between cloud and veiled light. Marbling and drains of a rare finesse, to be discovered up close. A matte black framing that extends the depth of the background. A work of contemplation, which brings to the place that welcomes it a quality of silence.
Presentation
GABAN is the name of a tight wing beat.
a breath that is no longer stifled. A vibration that imposes its necessity. Painter of pure emotion and living matter, GABAN emerges late, but with the certainty of being, finally, where everything converges.
Descended from a lineage of artists – grandson of Maxime Pierre André Verdier, painter and professor at the Beaux-Arts, and son of Michel Verdier, pathologist and leatherworker – GABAN carries in his veins the memory of gestures, the rigor of the gaze, and the freedom of pigments. But it is outside the academies that his work takes shape. A few courses, quickly abandoned. The essential is elsewhere: in the clash of colors, the visceral drive of the gesture, the tension between surface and depth. Never copy reality. Pierce it. Feel it. Invent it. With GABAN, emotion prevails over figuration, texture over line. His studios, in Paris and Aix-en-Provence, are sanctuaries. On one side a setting built for her by her partner, where the silent metamorphosis of an demanding and exposed Parisian life takes place, towards an inner fertility. There, the Ithaque house park unfolds its infinite palette of greens, ochres, wet shadows. Nature is not a source of inspiration: it is a matrix, a partner, a living double. On the other, his Parisian studio where the reflections of the sun on the Parisian rooftops are as many mirrors of souls, fertile ground for his creations. GABAN, a name chosen with poise by a woman who fully embraces herself but refuses assignments. Ambition is not gendered: to become a great artist, to sell his works during his lifetime, to exist in matter and in the market. That the art history is predominantly masculine is not a constraint, it is a field to reinvent. Appearing in painting in 2013 in a moment of assumed fracture with conventions and self-censorship, GABAN enters creation by breaking through. His period “EMERGENCE" (2013-2017) is dense, mineral, tumultuous. The canvases bear the stigmas of excess, of inner chaos, of flaws as much as of the will to extract oneself. The material is raw, sometimes black, incised, like scorched earth still smoking. Since 2025, a new era is taking hold: the period “CONVERGENCE", oriented towards calming, acceptance, openness. The colors broaden, the forms breathe, the gestures lighten without ever losing intensity. GABAN no longer seeks: GABAN is. And each canvas says it with elegance and power. GABAN does not paint to adorn, but to speak. To speak the dazzling beauty of the living, the subterranean struggles of the soul, and that quest for an always unstable balance between demand, freedom, and humanity.
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