Effets de soir. Pointillisme par Quayola au domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire

04/02/2022

Quayola's world premiere, commissioned specifically for the estate and financed by the Région Centre-Val de Loire, will inaugurate a new gallery in the Château's east wing, the result of major floor restoration and weight reduction work. This new space of over 200 m2 has never before been open to the public. Thanks to his incredible mastery of digital techniques and his extensive pictorial culture, Quayola constantly oscillates between art and nature, painting and plants. He often uses landscapes as a starting point and pretext for creating profound spectacle and movement. By hijacking image analysis and manipulation algorithms, he revisits the photographic image and proposes alternative modes of vision and synthesis. Familiar landscapes, filmed in ultra-high definition, are presented with particular emphasis on detail and the anthropomorphic forms of trees. Then, using specific software, the detailed appearance of the foliage is reduced to a two-dimensional mass that tends towards abstraction. As the contours of trees and shrubs become blurred, nature becomes dense and almost impenetrable. The resulting composition is suggestively suspended between representation and abstraction, between the depth of the natural landscape and the surface of the screen. To contrast with this image, rough graphic representations of