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Glues – a matter of choice
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Glues – a matter of choice

09.08.12

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Categories: Art, Collage, Painting

Glues – a matter of choice


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Usually, I spray. It's simple and convenient, but it smells. Liquid glue is odorless, but it brings me back into painting. I do not want to go back to it. I want to stay on the dry side. It is without doubt the fact of using a paintbrush to glue the piece of paper that creates the embarrassment in me. It puts me in the times when I glued plenty of papers (with acrylic glue applied with a brush) on my old paintings. I hardly bear a glue stick that has a nasty habit of making groats, putting too much glue on paper, creating beads and other unsightly ripples. I could easily work around this problem by sticking my papers on heavier media, less fragile than a paper magazine, but then it would become something else, closer to painting than what I’m aiming for: a fragile work in paper. To illustrate my point, here is the example of collages given long ago to my nephew Ol. When I visited him recently, I noticed that he had simply taped them to the wall. I was first horrified, realizing how much they had suffered from dust, displaying some blunders in the use of a liquid resembling to coffee, not to mention the yellowing due to light. Yet I have said nothing, thinking that the works are now under his responsibility. And very recently, he has given them back to me in order to scan them, because he wants to order prints on canvas. With PS, I was able to repair the outrages and obtain renovated images. In the closer view, I thought that these collages were good and that the paper collage was better than the painting I had wanted to do. As proof, I put them face to face. The collage seems to me closer to my intent, the painting gradually emancipated, it wanted to live its own life and has forced its existence on me. At the end, I was exhausted and I wrote what I lived on the very painting (fairly illegible). So I would say that the painting opposes me, while the collage - perhaps this is due to its small size - is one with me when I make it. That's why I prefer to stay dry.


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Colles – une question de choix
Habituellement, je colle au spray. C’est simple et pratique, mais ça sent mauvais. La colle liquide est inodore, mais elle me replonge dans la peinture. Or je n’ai pas envie de retourner vers elle. Je veux rester dans le sec. C’est sans le doute le fait d’utiliser un pinceau pour encoller le morceau de papier qui crée cette gêne chez moi. Cela me remet dans la période où je collais plein de papiers (à la colle acrylique appliquée au pinceau) sur mes anciennes toiles. Je supporte tout juste le bâton de colle qui a la fâcheuse habitude de partir en gruaux, d’en mettre trop sur le papier, de créer des bourrelets et autres ondulations disgracieux. Je pourrais aisément contourner ce problème en collant mes papiers sur un support plus épais, mois fragile que le papier d’un magazine, mais alors, cela deviendrait autre chose, plus proche du tableau que de ce que je veux obtenir : une œuvre fragile en papier. Pour illustrer mon propos, voici l’exemple de collages donnés il y a bien longtemps à mon neveux Ol. Quand je suis allé le voir dernièrement, j’ai constaté qu’il les avait simplement scotchés au mur. J’en ai été tout d’abord horrifié, constatant qu’ils avaient souffert de la poussière, de quelques maladresses dues au maniement d’un liquide ressemblant à du café, sans parler du jaunissement dû à la lumière. Pourtant, je n’ai rien dit, pensant que les œuvres étant dorénavant sous sa responsabilité. Et puis, très récemment, il me les a redonnées pour que je les lui scanne, car il veut commander des tirages sur toile. Grâce à PS, j’ai pu réparer les outrages et obtenir des images rénovées. En les regardant de plus près, je me suis dit que ces collages étaient bien et que le collage papier était supérieur au tableau que j’avais voulu en faire. Pour preuve, je les mets face à face : le collage me semble plus proche de mon intention, le tableau s’est progressivement émancipé, il a voulu vivre sa propre vie et s’est imposé à moi. A la fin, je n’en pouvais plus et j’ai écrit ce qui m’habitait sur le tableau même (de manière assez illisible). Je dirais donc que le tableau me fait face, alors que le collage – peut-être est-ce dû à sa taille restreinte - fait un avec moi au moment où je le fais. Voilà pourquoi je préfère rester au sec.

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