The public is invited to discover this painting of the artist Guillaume Bottazzi during this event at 20 avenue de Lowendal in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower.
As part of the European Heritage Days, the venue is exceptionally open to the public.
This oil on raw linen canvas leads us to travel in a sober and unreal universe. This painting confronts us with a contradiction since the effects of lights do not respect the fundamental rules of painting. Indeed, each element seems to receive shadows in a random way and this induces the observer to create spaces that escape the field of the frame of the table.
According to Éric Kandel, the non-visible parts stimulate our cognitive activity.
This work by Guillaume Bottazzi focuses his attention on the effects produced, enhancing the aesthetic-cognitive activity of the observer. It was the subject of an article in the newspaper Le Monde during the European Heritage Days 2020.
Guillaume Bottazzi is a French visual artist with a psychological and poetic approach. It has been operating for 30 years in Europe, Asia and the United States.
The artist has signed more than 100 works of art in public spaces. It receives private and public commissions from museums, such as the Miyanomori Museum of Art, who commanded him the largest painting in Japan that dresses the museum, the Century Art Museum or the Mori Museum; cities, such as Brussels Capital or the city of Tokyo, with a work of 100m²; ministries, such as the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Health.
Since 2004, Guillaume Bottazzi has been represented by the Itsutsuji gallery. This major gallery in Japan allowed him to win with several artistic commissions. She discovered artists such as Simon Hantaï, Pierre Soulages, Yayoi Kusama, Ay-o, Guillaume Bottazzi, but also introduced movements such as the Supports/Surfaces group, including Claude Viallat.
Guillaume Bottazzi’s official website: https://guillaume.bottazzi.org