Itinerary "In Search of Artists" on the territory of Pré-Bocage Intercom. The Church of Saint-Ouen from the 16th and 17th centuries, in Le-Mesnil-Au-Grain, welcomes the artists Iziak KELLER and Oxo YUTZ painters and sculptors, two artists who were acclaimed by the public in 2022.
Oxo: "Yutz is the city of Lorraine where I spent my childhood, my artist name being a way to keep my roots, my soil, a conspiracy of distance and forgetfulness. The themes I address are pretexts to question the «how to live, love, die?» , where I constantly re-examine my own history by seeking echoes in other works, philosophical, literary or musical.
The main subject of my work will always be watermarked by what I called «The Night of Childhood», a common thread, a recurring bone structure that crosses my successive themes. Childhood can also be understood as that of human animality, from its adulthood until its inevitable decline, its third age of Earth exsanguinated and breathless by its tenants, suicidal- inconsequential, fighting and bulimic."
Iziak: Interwoven wooden choir, in the roots of the world... Birds, trees and men
When our human souls, nourished in the cradle of the world,
cross the forests, the paths, the forests, the gardens, the coppices, without hearing any more the rustling of the leaves, the cracking of the woods,
listen to the sound of birds without hearing their songs, their complaints, their joys, listen to the whisper of underground vines, without ever feeling their vibrations.
When clearly the trees speak to us and guide us, when their roots cross and multiply, accompanying the living... Fetal strains of love, protection and sharing.
When at the heart of ties, the Maternities of the world, Nature, Territories of lives, Organic geographies embrace, die and disappear...
Then shines human ignorance, an evolved species, deaf to the language of life.