Our modern lives

When one looks at the men and women of today objectively, a feeling of gravity dominates. The apology of action justifies working lives and saturates leisure. Collective life rules. The statute of loneliness is increasingly restricted, just as the love of the beautiful.

This prosaic trend is not new. It is undoubtedly as old as the world. It is human. However, things have become worryingly acute. The economy and its development are the great project of our society. To tell the truth it is the only one. However, it is difficult to take interest in it.

Reflecting this observation, the painting of Pierre Lamalattie is often critical, and blends the narrowly tragic and comical. However, there is no humorous intention. That would be superficial. When his paintings make one laugh, it is because of their truth.

Remain, hidden in the background, our emotions and aspirations. Their position is precarious. When they emerge, it is all the more beautiful as their overshadowing was burdensome. The revealing of the sublime is furtive, often incongruous. It is not the result of work, but rather the fruit of waiting or even boredom. One suddenly has the impression of entering another dimension, like someone discovering love for the very first time.

Happiness exists at times, it is undeniable. But it is often made up of furtive moments, escaping from action. These are almost always moments to which one does not pay attention, moments which escape us. When agitation ceases, when a decantation occurs, we can welcome a strange tranquility, be seized by something fugitive, unperceivable, by something "really true". That is what Pierre Lamalattie invites us to explore, as a counterpoint to a lucid reading of ordinary life.

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