Who is this artist who adores
deceiving people ? Who has worked to create this optical illusion to
which the spectator, who believes that he can see an image which doesn't
exist, falls prey ! Simple technique is not enough. Technique can produce
great craftsmen, but not great artists. What counts, is the imaginary,
inventiveness in the choice and disposition of objects, the scenario they
suggest, the symbolic of their arrangement.
Trompe-l'œil painting, this painting which flirts
with reality, constitutes an attempt by the artist to recreate the world
by breathing life into the inanimate, by introducing an element of
confusion between reality and his inspired copy of it.
Neither surrealism, nor hyperrealism, trompe-l'œil art is simply
realistic.
What a feat to create the relief of an image which
hangs in the air ! A magical moment where deception and art are one.
Whilst technique clearly has its role to play, it is not enough, such
skill must also harbour a soul, which is easily detected among the
greatest artists.
Every
trompe-l'oeil artist possesses an inner magician. Intelligence in terms
of subject choice, in the message he conveys, in the symbol he
illustrates, in the stagecraft of reality which gives even greater
substance to a style of painting which is often astonishingly modern. The
subject takes on the proportions of a real language, a true means of
communication.
Jaqueline Dana - Writer
"Lard
comptant pour rien"
Huile sur Bois - Oil painting on wood - 46 X 38 cm
The new creations
of Yves Palliès
The "Denbas"
Figurines in polychrome plaster
Made in only one example
Average height : 30 cm
Virtuosity and a
great deal of reflection ! With Yves Palliès, trompe-l'œil
painting is as much an amazing feat as it is a game. The quality of
execution, the extreme detail, the wealth of inspiration can only be but
admired ! The painter reveals himself to be as mischievous as Giotto or
Dürer. Rather than the lifelike flies and spiders of his
predecessors, Palliès favours precise messages, puzzles and hidden
self-portraits.
His studio is reminiscent of an
old curiosity shop : old books, objets d'art, watches, maps, anatomy and
natural science treatises, board games, shells… He has a gift for assembling
and breathing life into such objects : his sense of composition
constantly linked to the pleasure of discovering each object. Each
painting is a miniature silent theatre production in which the objects
play the leading roles : pyramids of old books with worn covers, houses
built from playing cards, articulated dummies ready to spring to life and
one thousand other truer than life objects... In these delightful rooms,
intrigue promises constant surprises and provokes exactly the right
choice of words. The pleasure of discovery is complemented by the
artist's effective stagecraft which is so carefully constructed that
illusion never fails to gain the upper hand. Yves Palliès takes great pleasure from
hiding his signature : on the face of a watch, on a set of letter cubes,
on the spine of a book. He is full of imagination and covers the most
diverse themes. Illusion is at its height : worm-eaten wooden planks,
corrugated cardboard for the background, shelves, half-open suitcases,
bent nails, crumpled paper, curled pages….the materials are
perfectly imitated, the colours magnified by glazes, the depth skilfully
suggested, mischievous titles. Yves Palliès plays on every aspect
of surprise. And all for our delight and visual pleasure !
