Exhibition: Stéphane Quoniam
Stéphane QUONIAM
“One can be very educated and very Nazi, very communist, very fascist, very warrior, very dictator, very religious and very stupid. We then witness the universal deception, the disintegration of educated societies and the destruction of the rules of conduct of men in the social order. Waltor Benjamin had well written the catastrophe would be to let go of the free course of things … This is what is happening all over the world … Painting can attest to this, I am working on it here.”
If it takes many words to explain a painting, it is because it is bad or, at the very least, it is bad sign. I will therefore content myself here to pick up the light wounded by extreme stupidity to show it with my modest means and with a furiously incandescent brush, in order to paint the reality of the wild and barbaric world that is spreading at our doors, in its tragic obscenity.
Do not delete the art in the name of the comment, this could be my motto here.
With the Russian aggression in Ukraine, I felt worrying symptoms caused by the mere act of painting and, as René Char wrote, «Lucidity is the closest wound to the sun»