The stroke of the pen or brush is the prime mover that initiates a line, a series of dots naturally linked to each other, from one seduction to the next. What does this stroke become? What can it be turned...
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stroke of the pen or brush is the prime mover that initiates a line, a
series of dots naturally linked to each other, from one seduction to the
next. What does this stroke become? What can it be turned into when
confronted by chance, the white, blank sheet, the accidental gesture of
the hand? Nonetheless it becomes. Eric Dabancourt’s work ponders over
that subtle, deft, unique and one-of-a-kind metamorphosis. The pursuit
of the artist who, through his various experiences brought about by ink
and pen, quill or brush, reflects over and over on his stroke brought to
life, a sudden and instinctive birth. Drawing is a first person in the
plural that leads us to the broadest of explorations, from which bonds
to others, encounters, crossings, transgressions, embraces originate.
With multiplicity at play in every stroke, the stroke appears manifold,
and whatever it runs into, it is never perceived as a dead-end but
rather as an opportunity to move further. Bringing together the various
material components accompanied by the actual gesture of the stroke,
Eric Dabancourt intends to make the worlds of the senses respond to each
other to try and find out how far communication can go. Like a
little shadow theatre, obstacles elicit paths blending into one, as the
artist wrestles with creation that is endlessly subject to the
unpredictability of interpretations.
