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La tension du peu
Ludovic Philippon
January 2024
A shape stands out from a background with sharp, contrasting colors and a precise, demanding line. No false steps are tolerated in either color or line.
Inherited from his training as an architect, he combines technical and artistic discipline with great sensitivity. Everything in his painting must be seen in the light of his years as an architect, and the visual and poetic impact that the atmospheres and landscapes around him have had on him.
The form always evokes something in me, but I don't really know what. A flower? A crack? A ribbon? Hide and seek with my senses, there's something of the order of play when everything seems so serious in the end.
But as Pierre Wat says, "Renouncing recognition opens the eye", and to look at a work by Ludovic Philippon is to escape and let your imagination go.
The colors, assumed, are remarkable for their power: orange, yellow, red, blue, green, black and so on. They contribute to the tension and density of the paintings. The artist speaks of "the path of color", as if they were the starting point of his pictorial journey.
Just like the artist,
it's an intimate, solitary painting in front of which we wish to remain alone, in silence.
In the artist's image,
it's a humble, minimalist and touching painting.
Amélie du Chalard
