Julien Previeux
FAQ acrylic on canvas, 75cm x 90cm, 2007.
This collection of “abstract” paintings presents as a choice of geometrical shapes associated with different statements. The combinations are borrowings from the covers of social science books from the 1970s, but with the text / image relationship reversed: it is no longer the image that illustrates the title, but the text which serves as a caption for the image. This reappropriation of graphic material itself inspired by a certain artistic avant-garde refuses to choose between formulation, formalization and formalism. Does this connecting of vocables with a system of shapes signal accumulation of knowledge or mere overinterpretation? To what extent can an abstract motif model questions like education, sexual deviation, contemporary psychiatry, economics and the public interest?
This collection of “abstract” paintings presents as a choice of geometrical shapes associated with different statements. The combinations are borrowings from the covers of social science books from the 1970s, but with the text / image relationship reversed: it is no longer the image that illustrates the title, but the text which serves as a caption for the image. This reappropriation of graphic material itself inspired by a certain artistic avant-garde refuses to choose between formulation, formalization and formalism. Does this connecting of vocables with a system of shapes signal accumulation of knowledge or mere overinterpretation? To what extent can an abstract motif model questions like education, sexual deviation, contemporary psychiatry, economics and the public interest?
