Robert Combas born 1957
Untitled 1998
Writing mingling memories and trains of thought transcribed directly on the canvas:
"Memories of South of France coming back full force in my BRAIN..."
(see translations of the original French text below)
Acrylic and glitter on signed canvas
Signed and dated 1998 in the centre
Dimensions : 81 x 130 cm
Framed
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Exceptional work characteristic of Combas' art distinguishing itself through the overwhelming presence of writing, which is always at the heart of his work, creating here mysterious and anecdotal
counterpoints to the six images, ranging from caricatural figures and heads crowned with flowers to butterflies.
His writing is halfway between the automatic writing of the Surrealists and the work of Ben Vautier, mingling memories and trains of thought transcribed directly on the canvas:
"Memories of South of France coming back full force in my BRAIN
With the orange, the colour of the anti-rust we find on the BOAT
And the green that's not always bright...
(...)
Two big butterflies burst in my head and come out of my "tools" through my arms and my hand,
they remind me of de BOIDIS wood where my brother Francis and I played soldier..."
(...)
"We looked at the Mediterranean...
...and I have no more space, what a bloody idiot"