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Zone de Texte: II

Zone de Texte: III

Zone de Texte: " Open eye to the invisible ." Léon Denis ABSTRACTIONS If Weston considered that “art for art's sake is a failure”, on the other hand, to discover and transmit the keys which open the way to imaginary voyages, here is the apotheosis for an artist, and particularly for the plastics artist who thus transforms his art , these ”dumb things” which Stendhal considered meaningless, into speaking visual art, still more feeding the secular debate as much as impassioned of “Ut Pictura Poesis”. Combination of true values, "Visual Art - Poetry", this art cannot however suffer from outrageous transformation, was it scientific, technical, or subjective, under penalty of seeing it disappearing under the hand of its manipulator: it is thus necessary to be “ as passive as possible ” to take the advice of Siskind. “The poet must see the things such as they are and then he must show them to others such as, without him, they would not see them. “ Pierre Reverdy Thus, all these images you will discover are “original” because emerged, in front of my astonished eye, of a nature worked by elements. They are also “primordial” because often fugitive and born in an instantaneous way with the chance of the objective of my camera, which quickly became the prolongation and the ultimate accomplice of my eye - this eye which tries to see the invisible, or just simply to see differently - but also the essential and perfect tool to seize, memorize, and transmit, as accurately as allowed, these images which are as many received messages of secret keys to reach the imaginary voyages - these ones even about which spoke Dante in The Divine Comedy or Christine de Pizan in The book of the path of long estude, these imaginary voyages that one described in the Middle Ages and that appeared under the image of “The celestial scale”, like Christian Heck has so remarkably exposed it. As testimonies to its existence, the purpose of my images is thus to restore “the seventh face of the die” about which Josef Sudek was spoken, this still secret work of a famous creator, unsigned, undedicated, key work on the way to dreams, and of which “colors express and cause emotions by themselves” according to the idea of Ernst Haas. However, my concern being of influencing or disturbing in no manner this “true photography” as said Moholy, in order to preserve the purity of the daydream to which it invites the spectator, I thus refuse to give to it any figurative or only suggestive title, prohibiting thus any state intervention to me. Only the references of classification can appear in a coded language deprived of imaginary direction. " To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy. " Robert Doisneau