Thierry de Cordier
24 Mar - 28 Apr 2007
© Thierry de Cordier,
FUCKING FLANDERS (The green Cross), 1997-2007,
Crayon, charcoal and oil on canvas,
95 x 139 cm
FUCKING FLANDERS (The green Cross), 1997-2007,
Crayon, charcoal and oil on canvas,
95 x 139 cm
THIERRY DE CORDIER
"Paintings for a while"
(Peintures pour un instant)
- « I felt I was almost overcoming my illness and sliding into a wonderful peace. Everything was green in my room. I thought I was in a pool; which for me meant I was in Mom’s body...I was in Paradise, in the maternal womb. »
Six green paintings constitute the exhibition. Two of them are not visibly green but are nonetheless imbedded in green. A passage found in the “Diary of a schizophrenic” (see the quote here above) decided on the choice of these works. Apart from a pseudo-monochrome which refers almost explicitly to the aforementioned passage, I have not inspired myself from this passage (for the other canvases); for the simple reason that I started painting these pictures before I discovered this fragment. Let’s say that in other words the excerpt links the paintings one to the other; like a glaze binds colours. Or at least brings them closer to each other.
It seems to me, when I look closer at it, that the meeting of these six paintings evokes finally a search of the mother or on the contrary an attempt at freeing oneself from her. From a philosophical perspective, the question is, at any rate, of the « self » understood as a lack. If not an excess.
Above all, I would like the viewer to be able to look and to listen to these paintings the same way as one listens to a musical score. And may they release the silence which inhabits them...
Thierry de Cordier
"Paintings for a while"
(Peintures pour un instant)
- « I felt I was almost overcoming my illness and sliding into a wonderful peace. Everything was green in my room. I thought I was in a pool; which for me meant I was in Mom’s body...I was in Paradise, in the maternal womb. »
Six green paintings constitute the exhibition. Two of them are not visibly green but are nonetheless imbedded in green. A passage found in the “Diary of a schizophrenic” (see the quote here above) decided on the choice of these works. Apart from a pseudo-monochrome which refers almost explicitly to the aforementioned passage, I have not inspired myself from this passage (for the other canvases); for the simple reason that I started painting these pictures before I discovered this fragment. Let’s say that in other words the excerpt links the paintings one to the other; like a glaze binds colours. Or at least brings them closer to each other.
It seems to me, when I look closer at it, that the meeting of these six paintings evokes finally a search of the mother or on the contrary an attempt at freeing oneself from her. From a philosophical perspective, the question is, at any rate, of the « self » understood as a lack. If not an excess.
Above all, I would like the viewer to be able to look and to listen to these paintings the same way as one listens to a musical score. And may they release the silence which inhabits them...
Thierry de Cordier