Today, more than ever before, 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. Any thing which deserves attention is as a resource. Man himself has become a "human resource". 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.
The painting of Pierre Lamalattie proposes a glance on these men and women of today, with their ever so complex mixture of ridicule, tragedy and poetry. His works reflect moments of life, sometimes entire lives, in the form of pathetic and comical short cuts. They are like existential comic strips or Romanesque advertisements. All the debatable qualities that our untiring contemporaries like to put forward are jostled in the artist's work. There remains however a feeling of emptiness, an intimate nostalgia, the intuition that there is another vocation for Man.
As a counterpoint, Pierre Lamalattie evokes small moments to welcome, fortuitous moments from which a dream can emerge. When he was a young boy he would go out for walks with his grandmother, who would show him the drawings produced by the plants and the elegance of the foliages. He hasn't forgotten her. Authentic beauty often lies in the simplest or most unexpected things.