The Essence of Being

The meaning of pure expression remains unchanged in its aim to build an identity in the expression of material.

Whatever the material used, this trace shows the time and space and the permanent states of souls who immediately affirm the human kind. As I have experienced through my own evolution as a painter, transcendence is the pure material in a journey often dangerous and stressful. It is as if this passage is unavoidable, to the progress of intelligence and the evolution of thought. From expressions of the first cave paintings and primitive gestures to translate life , through graphic idioms and the first stage of the language in child drawing; one maiming remains: the idea of that authentic dream wich turns into permanence transformation in art and life.

From graphic gesture to percussion music emerges as an extra, necessary in the odyssey of life through the ages.

Jules Léonel March 15 2009

Art and Education, an alternative for the realizing ones internal dream towards ones identity

February-March 2009, I am involved in three educational projects in the upcoming weeks:

• Dazibao is a project for youths ages 12 to 14 that prevents violence and delinquency in schools (Saint-Michel and Montreal North districts); 
• The second project involves young people from the ages 11 to 21 in conjunction with the TRILS (Street Work Laval), a youth center that I qualify as an innovator in how they empower young people.
   
• Finally the third project is done in concert with teachers at the Riverview School in Verdun, the art work done by these young kids will be presented to the Montreal Science Center in the Old Port for a year, but this after a two week representation at Montreal's Contemporary art Museum. This project is done in collaboration with teachers: Audrey Desrochers Laffont and Patrick Stevedoring for Arrimage, one of the innovative models  from a program intitled «Programme de soutient à l'École Montréalaise » from the Department of Education, Recreation and Sports of Quebec

DC Washington Passport , a great initiative on cultural exchange...
Obama:Black and White Dream is now part of the White House Collection.

Carre plastique
 
From (Convergence 2005) forms the basic unit of visual representation which involves rythm in my artistic journey, to the Transe-Formes (2006 series), I managed to create a pictorial where the movement of these is the only element in the process of structuring the surface.

The gesture, and the memory of a –Trajet- in space are transformed in the material spirit of these forms themselves. Regarding color, it vehicle, of course, a structured and spontaneous emotion at the same time a system in the use of black.

A system that helps to shape a structure of the identity of the chromatic expression. One way to propose a symbolic function in the evocation of the black, as ground. The originality of green and purple stems from black variation in the tone. For example, my green is composed of black and yellow instead of blue and yellow. My purple red and black rather than blue and red.

This idea of the color is the one that confirms that identity in projects involving youth and parents. A look at our community school and its environment is one of the last major projects that I just realized (See photos).

In terms of a synthesis of my pictorial journey so far, there is the sake of simplicity, I explore the use of only one of these basic forms of visual representation : the square. The theme of my last solo, in Laoun, in February 2007, (Tools and structure) exhibited some thirty works trying to implement this square plastic.

A process that reveals its rigor and its dynamic nature. With complete freedom, using in my work elements of collage, which allows me to perpetuate in the work an objet, for example, who seduced me. The goal is to make them work in a different way from the world of everyday. Those objects gains a new life in the rythm of the square structure.

How can overpower the human dimension and to establish the organic notion of stability and tranquility in this new world?

These are some of my concerns in this journey towards absolute painting. The interpenetration of different elements and small territories created by the game of this square plastic expressed addition, in three-dimensional space. It is important to discover new issues of this concept of square plastic. Ultimately, how it would be possible to overcome the thought of the painting itself?

However, a first approch of this system, concerns sizes & organization of the pictorial space in a three-dimensional project (ethno entomology, the reality of the imaginary 2007-see photos) allowed me a glimpse of the rich opportunities for innovation that characterizes this new line of research. I see great opportunities in the development of three-dimensional aspect to this as well reveal the state of being pictorial which must necessarily mingle the two-dimensional expression.

Supports square which usually articulate large two-dimensional surfaces this time will allow me to build another pictorial universe.