“Traits – Portraits”, paintings, black on white, by Michaël Faure to be viewed at Majestic 8 boulevard Maréchal-Fayolle in Puy-en-Velay until December 7.
They seem ideally designed to enhance the elegant and classic decor of the Majestic in Puy-en-Velay. Spicy, singular, intriguing and endearing, the series “Traits – Portraits” by the inspired jack-of-all-trades Michaël Faure, finds a suitable setting on the ruby velvet of the rooms of this central Ponote brasserie, opening on one side onto the main artery Boulevard Maréchal-Fayolle, on the other on Place Michelet.
Michaël Faure presents paintings, black acrylic on a white background, with minimalist lines, which invite faces both unknown and familiar to your table. In a few brush strokes, he brings to life a gallery of characters, with calm, sulky, saddened, worried, perplexed expressions… who all seem to look the same, all of us, all of them also resemble him, in their disturbing and repetitive humanity.
“O faces, my mirror!”
“A few spots, a few features… and a face appears. It is not a portrait, feature for feature. Where do these faces come from? What do they resonate with us? They are not the face of anyone we know, and yet, they rarely challenge us or leave us indifferent.
As if the Face, in its universality, as soon as it is glimpsed, refers us to ourselves, to the other, the other in us, in our intimacy. Just like the thousands of faces we come across in our lives that don't need words to speak to us.
Anonymous, unknown or familiar, the Face always touches the intimate in us. The face vibrates and resonates our part of universal humanity. We recognize it, we recognize ourselves in it, as if it were us, our human condition. O faces, my mirror!”
And also
Michaël Faure is exhibiting a series in the same black acrylic vein “The dance of faces” to be enjoyed until December 12 at the bar “La Main ô fut” 6 rue Meymard, still in Puy-en-Velay.
