Démarche artistique
“Most of the time, I don’t see the tree in front of me. I’m looking at it but at the same time I’m smitten with a thousand ideas about trees, which spin round in my head. I wait for them to settle down….. Then perhaps I notice a tiny movement, almost nothing, that means something. I trust it, feeling that it’s not just part of the idle chattering of a moment ago or an emotional projection. The nascent movement stops and starts again if I stay very open and calm. A rhythm appears, bringing it a little strength. Life continues to circulate. I call this movement “sensation”. An airy strength is not so far off: the dancing energy that the eye makes out by the line that frees itself from shapes (branches).” Airy line, connected with breath. (11.7.99)
th BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Alexandre HOLLAN
HUNGARY HUNGARY
The great poet Yves Bonnefoy has devoted a number of texts to him, “L’arbre au-delà des images”, Editions William Blake & Cie, and a monograph, “La journée d’Alexandre Hollan”, Editions Le temps qu’il fait. The painter’s dialogue with such poets as Jacques Ancet, Philippe Jaccottet, Claude Louis-Combet, Luis Mizon, Salah Stétié, Pierre-Alain Tâche, Jong N. Woo and Louise Warren has led to the publication of over forty art books and artists’ books.
