Jules Milhau, who will create the poster for the next Nîmes ferias, presents a series of works with musical and poetic inspiration.
Everything happened very quickly for Jules Milhau, just 24 years old, who will sign the next poster for the Nîmes ferias. In the meantime, having just returned from Lisbon and Venice where he recently presented his work, he is exhibiting a series of recent works at the Boudon hotel, in parallel with the 35th flamenco festival.
“I started painting at 4 years old. Very quickly, it became my language”confides Jules Milhau, curious and self-taught. The painter, who is already in his tenth personal exhibition, is also passionate about flamenco, which he has studied for 10 years with Cathia Poza. “It’s part of my creative process. When I paint, I have a tempo in my head. Each brushstroke is like the rhythm of internal music. It’s part of me”explains the artist, who presents a series of Indian inks, created with vivacity, in a single movement, without lifting the wrist. “In the gesture, I want to rediscover the energy that is found in dance”continues Jules Milhau, who never paints from nature, preferring to live in the moment before throwing his feelings onto the canvas.
-“Painting has become my language”
Recently in Valencia, in one month, he created a notebook of drawings inspired by Gypsy Romanceroby Federico Garcia Lorca, always with the same spontaneity. “He talks about this gypsy universe which touches me. In his work, there is a very particular relationship between writing and music. He seeks to transcribe the sounds in his writing. I too am looking for a kind of music”specifies Jules Milhau.
This spontaneity, this speed of execution can take on a completely different appearance with his evocation of Fatima, collages where he accumulates scraps of silk, pieces of canvas, painting, drawing, pastel, “whatever I have on hand”for large compositions that are both raw and refined. To preserve this freedom of the hand, Jules Milhau can even make his own brushes. By hanging them on poles, he can work on large formats without any restrictions. On burlap canvases, whose rough side almost evokes walls, he paints dancers, like him in love with freedom.
