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 !
