The Meaning: Xanthopsia 165
- Artistic and Philosophical Context
This work is part of a contemporary hybrid practice, where the physical pictorial gesture (acrylic on canvas) and digital processing (stop-motion animation) merge to create a subrealist abstraction. The title "The Meaning" operates as a polysemic metaphor: a quest for existential meaning, but also a sensory and perceptive direction. This duality directly refers to the philosophy of the new human, where identity is constructed in the in-between of organic reality and its digital echo.
- Gestural Abstraction and Primordial Chaos
This reinterpretation draws on Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, De Kooning) to convey the chaotic abundance of life. The painted gestures—drips, impasto, splashes—evoke a primordial chaos, while the digital animation introduces a fluid, almost organic temporality, recalling the theories of resurgence and emergence (complexity theory). The bridge, symbolically transposed into a luminous and moving structure, becomes the passage from this chaos to an order symbolized by digital light, echoing Van Gogh's quest for transcendence through color and form.
- Duality and Coexistence: From the Physical to the Digital
The work explores the tensions between:
- Hand and Algorithm: The acrylic paint preserves the trace of the human gesture, while the animation introduces a computational logic.
- Stasis and Movement: The photographed canvas freezes the gesture, but the animation replays it in a contemplative loop, evoking neuroplasticity and the permanent reconfiguration of the self. - Real bridge and symbolic bridge: the Courbevoie bridge is no longer just a geographical location, but a metaphor for the transition between states of consciousness (real/digital, chaos/order, self/avatar).
- Homage and Displacement
This is not a copy, but a performative reinterpretation: Van Gogh is invoked as a precursor of a metaphysical abstraction, where the vibration of the brushstroke prefigures data flows. The work on light—already central to Van Gogh—is reworked through the medium of digital hybridization, creating an artificial aura that questions our relationship to the sacred in the digital age.
Tribute to Van Gogh : « The Bridge at Courbevoie » Original in : Van Gogh Museum
Digital art version : 3840 x 2160 px / 4K MP4 / 198 Mo / 15 fps / 1/1 édition