-I paint scenes taken from films from Alfred Hitchcock
like « rear window » and « north by northwest » , or
Almodovar « tallon needles » ,
and Douglas Sirk « the mirage of life” .
Each film is cut into
a hundred of canvases. Four series highlight the relationships between
painting and cinema trough the act of painting in the film ( the light, the
framing and the allegory of the open window in “rear window”). My work invites
the viewer to relive physically the internal atmosphere of the film without the
aspect of time connected to the movies. Canvases are grouped into different
themes inside the block of painting formed by each film, such as, for example :
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The different uses of black into painting and cinema,
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the integration of specific film signs (sets or
generic) ,
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or gestures of painting into the movies (crucifixion ,
lamentations…),
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and the use of
light as a source of projection and a source of the painting.
Approaching reality and reach images from it are
problems of painters and movie directors as well. Many painters borowed images
to fotography, my paintings take cinematic images as a subject.
