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Basile 2
2020
Sylvain BRUGIERE
Painting
116 x 89 cm
In Basile, Sylvain Brugière portrays his own son—whose name inspired the title of the painting—standing on a red-sand beach. He watches the sand fall back to the ground, forming a cloud-like haze that spreads across the background. The photographic image serves as the impulse for the painted picture, balancing between imitation and reinterpretation. Flat areas of acrylic color, rendered in bold and contrasting, yet muted tones, isolate the subject within a space and time conducive to contemplation.
All the artist’s paintings share the sensation of a moment suspended in time—an emotion that is both universal and deeply intimate—creating a kind of aesthetic of intuition.
Sylvain Brugière first studied design and photography before obtaining his agregation in art and teaching in middle schools in the area of Orleans, France. At first, he worked on productions mixing different media (small installations, fabrications, images) that remain in the stage of drafts, and in 2017, he decided to reconnect with a pictorial practice that is more instinctive and sensory.
His work is based on personal photographs that Brugière has been accumulating through the years. Even though their subjects are diverse, they aesthetically make for a whole that questions our relationship to the world, from the most intimate to the universal, turning Brugière’s work into a pending, suspended question.
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Sylvain BRUGIERE
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