Christian Feltin, Alchemy, 2022, Acrylic and Watercolour

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Acrylic and watercolor
36X48
23 04 2022

Framing and zooming in on the transformation of gold and fire.

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Acrylic and watercolor
36X48
23 04 2022

Framing and zooming in on the transformation of gold and fire.

The only rule: don't wear any. This is what moves the artist Christian Feltin. A challenge for this former Parisian architect and designer who throughout his life had to respond to constraints linked to his profession and who today, having become a painter, wants to rely only on his inspirations. The choice of abstraction is then for him a way of freeing himself from the figurative bases of academic teaching that he followed during his architectural studies. This same desire for freedom which made him leave the capital for the south of France where the tranquility of the place makes him forget the stress of his Parisian life every day. An environment which inhabits him and which he soaks up to create a work where spontaneity and meticulousness combine in a gesture which also knows how to be explosive.
Painting is finally for Christian Feltin the way to rediscover and re-dialogue with his roots, those of his Vietnamese maternal grandparents. He, who grew up in a Western environment and who readily calls himself a Vietnamese quadroon, today uses painting as a means of rediscovering and reclaiming this distant Asia which flows through his veins and colors his leaves and canvases with black, red and gold, these colors characteristic of Asian aesthetics, from lacquered furniture to calligraphy scrolls. An ancestral art which is omnipresent in his works and which he revisits by abandoning ink for acrylic painting. He then hollows out the signs of their scriptural function to develop their plasticity and graphic power and construct abstract architectures or give birth to flexible and aerial forms. We then think of Zao Wou Ki who also liberated calligraphy from writing, as well as Pierre Soulages who knew how to make black an incredible breeding ground of colors.
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