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Introduction
Dear Visitor,
The paintings and essays which you are about to see are in some ways an invitation to a personal adventure, quite separate from the one which I lived through when I created them. No doubt you will want to know something about my intentions in all this. They are very simple : my purpose is to create beauty, in a humble way, for men and women of good will, and that’s it.
Since the time of my first exhibitions on Internet, in 1995, I have noticed that we now have a whole new way of living our art, compared to the traditional type gallery or museum shows. Firstly, I give neither titles nor sizes for my canvasses so that you can be free to really make them your own, with sizes varying from a postage stamp to that of a whole universe. Secondly, you can rotate them as you wish so that they make the most sense to you….you’ll probably find several different angles depending on your frame of mind.
Added to this, if you take the time to examine the details on the screen, by enlarging them, you will be charmed to discover an infinity of luminous, transparent coloured universes, tying in with the ideas I conjure with in my essays on the relations between this artistic creation and our harmonious cosmos. Some people have chosen to reinterpret them in their own way, and so begun their own personal creative acts : like Pavel Ivanov, whose works you can see by clicking on « Incarnations ».
Others, happier with writing, have held writing workshops, inviting me to join in so that we have been able to exchange our impressions and write them down as a kind of testimony. In my absence, my writings provide the answers to practically all questions concerning my philosophy of creation, and in particular, its relationship to science.
I hope you will like what you see. My final wish would be that my canvasses should never be sold, that’s why I have tried all my life, without succeeding, to donate the whole of my work to International Foundations, as listed in my "Catalogue raisonné”which you can consult by clicking here: Catalogue 1, Catalogue 2, Catalogue 3, Catalogue 4, Catalogue 5, Catalogue 6, Catalogue 7, Catalogue 8. Catalogue 9, Catalogue 10. Catalogue 11. Catalogue 12, Catalogue 13, Catalogue 14, Catalogue 15, Addendum. This project, which is purely philanthropic and not-for-profit, therefore basically consists of ensuring that my work lives on after me, so that it should be common knowledge that none of my canvasses are for sale, that they belong to everyone and no-one in particular. Placed as they are, between art, science and spirituality they may interest the world of education and encourage young people to seek new paths. So please, no money, no fame, just a pure, simple and honest human relationship, through art ?
And now, for those with a bent for spirituality, art and
science :
After studying religions, after discovering Bell’s
theorem in quantum physics, according to which any reality can only be
" non-local ", I was convinced that we were connected with
the whole universe, with which we interacted. Beauty is the end in itself of the
artist’s activity. It is also one of the choice criteria for a scientific
theory, the means by which the scientist will support the advancement of
humankind. Consequently, beauty would appear to be the simmetry axis betwen art
and science, both the means and the end, the supreme criterion, hence, for Man,
in his participation to beauty, the reason for being of our universe. Why ? Isn’t
the universe itself a model of beauty ? Then why go against such a model ?
NEW !
Abstract Art : Compared to the traditional type museum or gallery, you now have a whole new way of living your Art, by clicking here.
I describe more in depth my philosophy of creation in another site, in various papers, one of which for a conference at the European Academy for Arts, Sciences and the Humanities, and two of which were published by Leonardo, an Art and Science Journal of the MIT Press. Please click here.
And now, click here to visit my galleries, which are classified chronologically from Nr 1 onwards, Nr 1 being the oldest one: here
If you want to read the comments of the media about this whole project, please click here.
Your feedback on all this will be highly appreciated. Thank you.
Related sites
Pavel Ivanov, a scientist and philosopher, has already interpreted some of my images [click here], and you might be interested in his Unist approach to Spirituality, Art and Science, as well as to the society of the future.