Description
Contemporary artwork in acrylic on linen mounted on wood, this vertical composition juxtaposes landscape, industrial structures, and graphic elements to explore tensions between territory, human intervention, and perception.
- Title: Eternal Return: [to be completed]
- Artist: Paul Béliveau
- Year: 2021
- Dimensions: 48 x 20"
- Medium: Acrylic on linen mounted on wood panel
- Presentation: Framed
- Feature: Unique signed artwork
- Series: From the series Eternal Return (15 works created during the pandemic), where each subtitle draws from pandemic vocabulary to reflect shifting relationships to territory, human activity, and perception
Between human presence and shifting landscapes, the image reveals a quiet tension between exploitation and fragility.
The artist
Paul Béliveau
Québec
…In Paul Béliveau's paintings, the play of juxtaposition is not the result of a random accumulation of images. Rather, it converges towards an idea of structure or of system, an organised assemblage of elements responding to each other and building upon each other… The artist, it should be noted, has always been fascinated by architecture, by the way machines work and by industrial structures, which he compares, in fact, to living organisms…
…Paul Béliveau's works do not represent terminal points. On the contrary, they reveal themselves to be outlines, sketches, creations which are constantly evolving…The meanings conferred on the images reproduced by the artist are therefore always relative…The artist's particular approach accentuates the phenomenological character of an aesthetics which reflects explicitly the contingent nature of existence…It is in this formal and conceptual coherence that the specificity of Paul Béliveau's work resides. His paintings, which live only through the pocesses of creation or of apprehension, invite us to transcend perceptible reality by directing our gaze towards the continuity of things, towards something that--paradoxically--seems to withstand the action of time and which could perhaps be called "humanity".