the essential
The Conflu’O intercommunal aquatic complex opens up to art by welcoming a first work by the painter Pierre Julia, a monumental painting of a whale.
When we pass the door to enter the vast hall of the Conflu’O aquatic complex, in Castelsarrasin, his eye observes us. Almost friendly, but penetrating, this look. The canvas, quite monumental (1.45 mx1.15 m), represents a whale in a beautiful shade of blue. This look is his. She owes this look to her creator, the Moissagais painter Pierre Julia, author of a magnificent series of large formats around the look at the heart of the animal kingdom.
A few years ago, we were able to discover his animal talent in the chapel of the seminary, in Moissac, and more recently, another facet of his multiple and polymorphous talent on small formats at the Galerie-Atelier on boulevard Pierre-Delbrel , still in Moissac. Pierre had been thinking about the idea of attaching a whale, the largest mammal on the planet, to the end of his brushes and knives for a long time. “Whales have never posed a threat to humans, and yet they are still excessively hunted today. This animal is a symbol of strength, grace, intelligence. That’s what I tried to transcribe in my work”, indicates Pierre. A regular user of the aquatic area, he naturally contacted the management of the establishment, who generously agreed to welcome the famous whale, clearly displayed right next to reception. The large marine mammal finds itself almost in its element here. The public can be struck by the power released by the animal, but harmonized and softened by a complex color chart of different blues which envelop this piercing eye which questions us. The perspective chosen by the artist for this painting highlights the volume of the whale, and the whole is in perfect harmony with the bluish tones which are one of the signatures of Conflu’O.
Other projects in progress
Pierre has other aquatic projects with the finalization of a jellyfish, as well as a nautilus, a marine cephalopod to whose shell mathematicians associate the golden ratio and the so-called Fibonacci sequence, which could quite naturally join their elder the whale on the walls of the pool hall.
-But Pierre Julia’s universe does not only focus on animals. He multiplies formats, atmospheres, styles, from Asian calligraphy to abstract, including animal figurative, always with an assumed and assertive color language.
The public will soon be able to find his creations from July 1, 14, at Galerie 34, in Lauzerte.
