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27/6/2012

Pascal Pinaud

Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul de Vence

From time to time, Pascal Pinaud serves as exhibition commissioner, which here reveals his very sound feeling for stage-setting. The space within the gallery will be radically redefined, becoming a carbon copy of the artist ́s studio by means of a life-size photographic panorama, and thus through this metamorphosis a place in which the different dimensions of both space and time telescope into one another.

In displaying real works near their photographic reproduction, Pascal Pinaud indulges in a triple plunge into the abyss : he simultaneously presents the gallery in the present, the studio at time X when the photo was taken, and the works which themselves contain multiple levels of time and space. A fourth dimension then makes the proposition even more complex : that of the future, as we are here dealing with a work comprised of episodes, with the gallery now proposing just the first act. The panorama will be used again for other exhibitions, in other places, each time bearing the traces of its earlier avatars.

We are here at the very core of the concepts which motivate Pascal Pinaud. It ́s never quite simply a matter of painting, and it ́s never just simply about an image. Each work derives from an anecdote, proceeds from an essential "off-stage" that we are allowed to glimpse or guess. Pascal Pinaud calls upon the chance participation of a plethora of players, sometimes involuntary, introducing into his "pictures" a multitude of objects picked up here and there, so many ready- made with their own tales to tell : furnishing fabrics, canvases carefully produced by unknown artists, oriental carpets, coach-builders ́ test’arts, dust or bird droppings ceremoniously trapped in the work ́s impeccable varnish. Time itself becomes a player and seems to consent to this amusing participation. The term "picture" takes on a new meaning, as when one says "to paint the picture" of a situation, meaning that one incorporates into it all its diverse components.

Rich in quotations, Pascal Pinaud ́s art - monochromes, abstract paintings, minimal art – continually re-creates itself. The fantasy and intense subjectivity characteristic of his approach are irrefutable sources of enjoyment. The visitor is invited to join the feast, here by means of immersion in a space which, for his benefit, has already been totally... re-visited : in a final sleight of hand, the artist becomes one with the spectator, sharing his own way of seeing with him.

Claire Bernstein, writer, art critic

Opening: Thursday, June 28th, 18h

Galerie Catherine Issert
2 route des Serres - F- 06570 SAINT-PAUL
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10h-13h and 15h-19h

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