I was in Ghana for my Art & Games World Tour, interviewing artists, curators and game makers, when the borders started to close in March 2020. I was supposed to fly to Kenya from Accra… but instead, I passed the border by the road and spent 5 months in Togo. In Lomé I was staying at Trez art studio and besides creating a garden from scratch, I started to paint large scale canvas. I learnt how to mount and prepare a canvas… and started to make big paintings…
I have been doing watercolor for the last 20 years and mostly on little scale papers. I loved to be able to paint whenever I felt like as my water color and papers could always travel with me… With canvas and acrylics I discovered the materiality of painting I started to touch the paintings, to carry them discovering a new relationship to image. I then needed to travel back to France and had to unmount them… very heavy these 4 paintings traveling back through CDG airport and then by train to Marseille…
Space landscapes, acrylics, 2020
Magic mountains, acrylics, 2020
Child memories, acrylics, 2020
Blue walk, acrylics, 2020
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