Réjean DORVAL (born 1966)
visual artist, draughtsman... Lot 18
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Réjean DORVAL (born 1966)
visual artist, draughtsman and performer
En creux
2024
Tinted charcoal drawing on paper
150 cm x 150 cm
DESCRIPTION:
"Is it the mark of frozen lightning or the shape of a young pine tree that crosses the leaf and the image in this way? It's in a dream or in a half-sleep, after we've gone deep into the forest of floating thoughts, that a breakthrough in the forest appears in the light. The rich subsoil of forest litter mixes the earthy white scents of networked mycelium with those of mosses and lichens thawing under the first rays of spring. The atmosphere is frozen but not silent, and you can hear the rustle of a mammal, hidden by the ferns, foraging nearby for juicy berries. Emmanuel Druon
We're probably on the edge of a forest with abundant, dense vegetation. Through this vegetation, the hollow profile of three trees is clearly visible. Here, what defines the presence of the trees is not so much what constitutes them per se, but rather all the living things that surround, enclose and contain them.
At first glance, the workmanship of the drawing might suggest the use of the rubbing technique. But this is not the case. The artist has allowed the spontaneous encounter of tool and gesture with the surface of the paper to determine the gradual appearance of the plant forms. In this way, the forest drawing
forest-drawing "resurfaces" in the same way as the artist's childhood memories of the boreal forests of the Laurentians, where he lived and still lives.
After a university education in the humanities and a career in research, Réjean DORVAL trained in artistic drawing with Saskia Weyts at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Tournai in Belgium. He then taught drawing for 10 years, focusing on body awareness and the body's involvement in the act of tracing and drawing. At the same time, he was introduced to contemporary dance and trained in performance art in Brussels under the guidance of artist and choreographer Sandra Vincent.
For the past 15 years, Réjean DORVAL's drawing work has revolved around the theme of nature and the forest, most often taking the form of large-scale, even monumental, drawings. His performances question both the act of drawing and our relationship with the living. Through the interweaving of the gesture of drawing, the density of the sensations that inhabit it and the performative act, his artistic work raises the question of what we keep alive in each of us.
His drawings and performances have been shown regularly in France and Belgium. An exhibition of a series of very large-scale drawings at the Chapelle du Méjan in Arles in 2018 was published by Actes Sud in 2020, entitled Le Temps n'existe pas; produced with Emmanuel Druon, who wrote the texts.
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