Manoir de KerBaskiou

Group exhibition organized by the Tutti Arty association at the KerBaskiou manor house from May 16 to 20, 2024.

For its second edition, the exhibition brought together 23 artists

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Mixing styles is a constant feature of Marc Petrusa’s work. From the 90s onwards, this characteristic appears in abstract painting based mainly on repetitive motifs. The idea is to cancel out the motif of representation and composition, and concentrate on the painting itself and the different ways in which it manifests itself. Composition is reduced to simple juxtaposition and motifs to circles. The distance introduced by this repetitive painting plays with the limits of the decorative. This distance is then reflected in seemingly figurative painting. Here, the figure, reduced to types, is a means of bringing different painting regimes into play once again. In the paintings devoted to “singers”, we can clearly distinguish several modes of representation (Singer in golden costume, Big Tenor or Blue Tenor). Each zone has its own coherence, but their juxtaposition produces a strangeness, sometimes seen as humorous or monstrous, even if it’s only the result of a process. In Bunny en bleu, Malibu or Athlète grec, the viewer has to accept the different sensations of space that make up the character. So, invited to traverse several worlds in a single work, his own place becomes uncertain and unstable. Representation itself can also become ambiguous through effects of superimposition or transparency (F. au paysage, Selfie or Elf). The resulting uncertainty is part of a contemporary questioning of representation and identity.

“In reality, I’m trying to be several people in one painting.

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