Il est en bas à gauche

Huile et collage sur toile,1998 - (170x186 cm)

When Aragon conceived and analysed the notion of collage being a challenger to painting he had in mind the compositions made of pasted paper as invented by Braque and Picasso. Clavé heard Aragon’s same call throughout his forty years of creation, from the first canvases of the 1960’s that mixed both oil and collage to his final works of the early 2000’s. Il est en bas à gauche is composed of a subtle assembling of different materials and the juxtaposition of different techniques: paper that is glued, torn, transferred with a myriad of painting techniques. The resulting composition is dynamic and complex, inviting the viewer into an intense whirlwind of imagery. In his final years of painting, the palette employed by Antoni Clavé becomes more constrained, concentrating on black, white and blue.

Peinture
Assemblage
Espace Paul Rebeyrolle 2016
Pablo Picasso
Papiers collés