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In Tavel, the artist based in Singine shows his creations under the title Performance aux petits ronds. He notably hangs a gallery of portraits and a series with joyful anthropomorphic spermatozoa, Human Seed.
The Human Seed series by Sylvain Bouillard. © Corinne Aeberhard
Published on 07.05.2024
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
A Benedictine patience. This is certainly what Sylvain Bouillard needs to trace the thousands of little circles that make up his works. It’s not pointillism – the circles are bigger than that, they’re full of emptiness, and they don’t give the same texture or feel as Seurat’s technique. But they are intriguing, that’s obvious. Exhibited at the Singinois Museum in Tavel under the title Performance in small circlesthe creations of the regional artist thus tell the story of life in countless and naive cycles.
On the first floor, a gallery of portraits drawn with acrylic pen shows faces from show biz. David Bowie, Madonna, Marlon Brando, Philippe Noiret and Julia Roberts make up this Wall of Fame very personal. But this trombinoscope also presents lesser known people. The artist himself thus drew himself in a self-portrait soberly entitled Me. He meets a war wounded man whose bandages take on an extra dimension with wads of cotton.
White tadpoles
A few stairs later, we climb into the attic and figuratively go back in time. The life paths mentioned on the lower floor are in fact found in the same origin, in a birth where cells multiply. In his series Human semen, Sylvain Bouillard therefore imagines anthropomorphic spermatozoa evolving on a black background. These characters with tapered limbs dance, stretch, mingle, merge in perpetual movement. They are friendly, these guys who look like white or variegated tadpoles. How many little circles drawn on paper did it take to make them appear? When placed among these works hung on several walls, the visitor suddenly feels part of their joyful community.
The artist based in Singine has also revisited in his own way one of the masterpieces of painting, Guernica by Picasso
The artist based in Singine has also revisited in his own way one of the masterpieces of painting, Guernica by Picasso. Here the format is smaller, the technique is different, the patterns change a little while retaining enough of the spirit of the original painting for it to be recognizable. However, the theme has lost none of its relevance. It seems that cities are still being bombed today. There is still talk of death with Jesusa work representing the crucifixion of Christ, surrounded by John and Mary.
>Until June 9 at the Singinois Museum in Tavel.
