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I was born in 1965, shortly after the knowledge economy was theorized by Fritz Matchlup in 1962.
The date of the beginning of modern art is attributed to either 1945 or 1960. Just like so many young people before me, my first passion was for what would change the world; the new technology - youth cocktail has always worked well.
Regarding previous generations, many young people were attracted by the high technology of their time: aviation, automobiles, steam engines, chemistry, etc.
For me, the field was computer science. I am a man of my time who believes that everything that can be achieved with a machine must be achieved by a machine.
Self-taught, I completed my studies at 19 years old, too early to have received a thorough education. This did not stop me from revealing my talents in IT, where I carried out interesting projects in database management, with the chance to listen directly to users and be able to provide them with concrete solutions to their needs.
The dream of any computer scientist is to create a program that works without bugs. To this end, I joined the world outside the program because otherwise it seems impossible.
I started painting at an age when it was too late to learn, after a 15-year career in computer science, by a drive towards color and my encounter with magical things that can only happen when you are confronted with matter.
As it was too late to learn, it was urgent to have fun. My work began by spraying paint onto large plywood boards and this immediately gave astonishing results.
the dragon that spits its fire, (2011) acrylic on plywood, h : 120 cm l : 250 cm, was made in 15 minutes - 2011.
Paintings like the dragon that spits its fire, even if they are beautiful and sumptuous, are nevertheless what automatic writing is at the work of the surrealist poets who used it and found its limits.
or mastery, the child replaces the Miracle, said André Malraux, the stage of having had the revelation of the miracle that there is something ineffable and miraculous in oneself is the first stage in the life of an artist.
Then it's work. Genius is essentially work, only idiots think it's something else.
Mappemonde h : 92 cm l : 92 cm 2009
and regarding mastery...
I have no technical mastery or the claim to master everything in my life.
What is certain, however, is the famous quote from the photographer Nadar who said that there are people who know how to see and most people don’t even know how to look;
It’s the Vini, Vidi, Vici of Julius Caesar: I came, I saw, I defeated.
in computer science I saw a problem, and my value was to provide it with a solution through a system.
A photo by Nadar can be recognized by its sensitive treatment of revealing the object through photography; As André Malraux said so well at the very beginning of the Imaginary Museum, we do not care about the identity of the Man with the helmet and the Man with the glove, their names are Rembrandt and Titian.
I am just a wayfarer who takes what happens to him and treats it in my own way; for me, the world is everything that happens to me and it’s chaotic; what is certain is that from this chaos appear to me wild evidences that I just have to... treat. The big problem in all this is that for the best guarantee that a new idea will emerge is to bring the current one to fruition. I am condemned to tap into the inexhaustible so that the source does not dry up. It is, in a manner assumed, a headlong rush into megalomania.
There are musician authors and musician performers; I think I am more of an interpreter who reads a score and gives it a colorful sound that is unique to me. A writer who writes something new with words that already exist.
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