He wanders throught the optical realm and its allegories, Antoine Aguilar enters a vast process of deconstruction, dismantling the generic idea of the screen and its analogy within the framwork of painting.
- Frederic Emprou
Antoine Aguilar
A Pale Bright Dot
July 8 - August 12, 2023
Edison, Lisboa
in collaboration with CHAUFFEUR Sydney
Deep Field (UN-12)
Oil pastel on canvas on wood
48 x 35,5 cm
2023
Aguilar´s creative journey is through colour, in an apprehension of light, in its undulatory and corpuscular materiality.
Snow (RGB_14_8)
Oil pastel, gesso, acylic on board
100 x 160 x 3.5 cm
2014
Private collection Woollahra
Volutile, Nuremberg, (detail)
Confetti paper
600 x 336 cm
2012
Private collection, Paris
Manipulated, crumpled, rushed, the fibre of the paper apparent, a landscape breaking the surface, black and homogenous.
The abyss offers itself to us via a cloud of disorderly pixels, sans signal, without meaning, without message.
A scene, unknown, appears from the snow – red, green, blue – from the light, a network is manifest.
A jumble of picture elements, constellations of points, dots, pixels, dreams, the very surface of visible space, an ocean of photons, the air of repose.
This is what it is to go through the screen and arrive in the space between stars.
- Antoine Aguilar
Time Fold at CHAUFFEUR, Sydney 07/09 – 06/10/2018
Manipulated Interstellar
Wallpaper
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3
2018
Picture Element
Ink on paper 28 x 23.5 cm, signed on verso, wood, black acrylic and UV museum glass
2018
Private collection, New Zealand