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Serious
glances
Faces are indisputably what have always attracted Pierre Lamalattie
the most, especially glances.
To him, the face is the direct expression of human presence, its
mood or its soul, its intrinsic beauty or its definitive ugliness.
Each face is, indeed, different. Each nuance, every small variation
of form produces a different impression. The face is an extremely
sensitive place. It is undoubtedly the place where the density of
direction is strongest. In this concentration of human moods, Pierre
Lamalattie likes to work as with a kind of practical ontology.
Three registers of expression are most representative of Pierre
Lamalattie's sensitivity:
- Comptemplative abandonment. Often with glances face forward, motionless,
slackened, void of both joy and sadness, opened to the world, forgetful
of themselves and letting silently penetrate the spectacle of things
and the world.
- Creative power. Releasing ardour from the interior, transforming
the inherent suffering and dislike in our lives into a bitter and
splendid beauty.
- Bestiality and ugliness. Tragically subjacent in much of the faces.
But expressed in a shameless way in those forgetful of themselves
in the heat of the action or in social illusions.
The faces of Pierre Lamalattie aim at a certain truth. At first,
they seem, by their presence, akin to photography. But they differ
from photography deeply. Pierre Lamalattie seeks to seize the shapes
of the faces through their roots, develop them and rid them of all
things useless. Far from engaging in cartography of details, he
likes the play of nuances and gradients, cherishes the sfumato and
the discrete or strident picturality of the touch.
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