GIACOMOTTO

When we look at all my paintings, there is a common style thread to them. However, through each of them I try to bring out something very different every time. This process is difficult, but not for the reason you may think of. The monochromic paper drawings are for me something very naturally relaxing and I have a bunch of them ready to be painted. The real difficulty comes in with the colors. I practiced a lot drawing forms that make sense together, I have some in many page corner of my school notes since high school, but colors that makes sense together is something fairly new to me. You probably noticed my first painting genesis is B&W, well this is the reason. Basically, all these paintings I have done so far represent my color coordination learning process. Genesis is for me perfect in term of forms and my objective is to achieve the same level with color. Jupiter is expected to be a major step towards this achievement because it combines the genesis idea with colors. At first I tried to lay down the shapes and then add the colors but I have been stuck on the shapes for months and I realized today they cannot be independent. This is the basic idea explained in the genesis text, it has to be built empirically and the same thing goes for colors. So today, the Jupiter canvas I started is covered with white gesso for a fresh restart. For the same reason, some sections of the freeway from above canvas have been covered as well.

Sometimes it’s better to erase it all so that our imagination is not cluttered with old mess.

I just scanned some drawings, a couple of them are already on the easel. So, expect some colors in a couple of months !

Alright, I had this idea for while now, but it has never been fully complete until this summer where I finalized the drawing as well as the idea. It was inspired from the shape of a freeway exchange while I was flying above France. I find the general shape really smooth, probably because the curvature of the central lines are limited to a certain range. But, what actually took time to develop was the rest of the drawing. I gave the space around the central lines a wave-like pattern a bit inspired from the St. Paul painting of Oleg Korolev with the additional scattered dots to give it a bit of a california 60’s art feeling. I am currently working on a 40″x30″ painting based on this idea. The color selection is giving me a hard time but it’s getting there.