El taller treize welcomed Élias Sanbar and Patrick Loste on the occasion of the presentation of the book The woman, the tree, the rider and the blue water.
There was something jubilant, something fusional, on Tuesday, September 17, which emanated from the presentation of this artist’s book. The woman, the tree, the rider and the blue waterco-signed by Patrick Loste (paintings) and Élias Sanbar (text) published by Paraules, under the direction of Esteve Sabench and André Robèr.
A story of friendship between Elias Sanbar, Palestinian historian, poet, translator and essayist and Patrick Loste, visual artist. A book that was built page by page, a friendship that grew, over the course of Elias Sanbar’s visits to Patrick Loste’s studio, in a farmhouse in the Albères, at the seam of the border. A book that is part of a notion of territory. “It is the work around which we have built a territoryexplains Elias Sanbar. There is a deep admiration and friendship. I began to circulate in the visits with the luxury of being able to go back and forth. I retrace my steps. It is very joyful these permanent back and forths”.
His gaze was able to penetrate Loste’s painting: “Man likes to forget where the path leads”this statement attributed to Heraclitus is in keeping with the soul of this painting. “And if I use the words of the philosopher, it is to say how much these paintings touch on the essence of the crossings from one world to the World”.
And to add: “Great works allow us to escape, to make incursions into territories that you do not suspect”.
Patrick Loste has invested a lot in this artist’s book, but he continues: “At no point in the work did I feel like I was working. When Esteve proposed it to me, he hadn’t finished the sentence when I said yes […] I made 125 paintings and Elias the text. It was done in the most natural way in the world, the most painless. I felt nothing but pleasure; moreover here, in this territory. I found in this work an interest, that Elias comes from the Arab world, that his family had horses. I approached very closely a civilization that I barely knew and that now I know a little better”.
And when Julien Blaine makes a comparison with Malevich in the middle of a busy evening, Patrick Loste puts on the handbrake: “Malevich is an intellectual, I am not. I will think about it.”.
A man of few words, Patrick Loste carries within him a strong intuition and an unwavering motivation, which transpire from his work. A work that is resized by Élias Sanbar and the book. “A happy, creative, intimate experience”, Franck Morel will emphasize.
An evening as we like them at El taller treize.
