Dream On and the Soothing Stone…

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Thursday 07th january 2010 - Archives

Total darkness gives way to a clear flash of light. It’s sort of what we all dream about—it’s a dream, just a dream, because directors of communication don’t really like obscurity. They only dare use black in the luxury sector, because the luxury is the light…

The Pierre Soulages exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou plunges us into the ‘fervence’ of his blackness, into the creases and recesses of material painting, a world painting that swallows us whole and spits us out revived, born again, all within the span of a visit.

Pierre Soulages. Pierre, French for ‘stone’, the coarseness of the canvas, the roughness of a dense brush sculpting the white surface, turning it black from the inside out, subjecting it to the unyielding harshness of the light.

Pierre Soulages. Soulages, French for ‘soothes’, the black-less space with an unbreakable landscape of light that gently chisels out the contours of a new liaison between man and…color.

Black is black and it’s full of hope—but, that’s not what the French TV program guide Télérama thinks and for some obscure reason, they don’t want to shed any merciful light on an exhibition that we found dreamy.

Pierre, French for ‘stone’, the coarseness of the canvas, the roughness of a dense brush sculpting the white surface, turning it black from the inside out, subjecting it to the unyielding harshness of the light.

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