» CONVERSACIÓN CON EL VACIO, OBSERVACIÓN DE LO MÁGICO. «
Delimbo Gallery, Sevilla. 2020
“Conversation with the void, Observation of the magic” is the suggestive title of the latest exhibition by the artist Guillaume Alby, better known by his artistic name Remèd.
The exhibition gathers a total of 10 large-format paintings, 14 drawings and marble sculptures that the artist has produced together with artisans from the city of Seville, thus complying with his work ethic under which he seeks to involve local agents in his process, enriching both his work and his knowledge.
The title of the show is the expression of the relationship between abstract and concrete : “ To speak with emptiness is to know how to listen, to change the white wall into a window. Void, or the illusion of emptiness… is something like the egg of our reality. I understand it as the cradle of all “possibles”, that is where they are extracted from, where they can become reality. The oven where ideas, or rather intentions, conscious or unconscious, can become matter.
Observing the magic is to know how to see, so to make something invisible become visible. I believe that everything that exists, or that is perceived, belongs to the domain of abstraction before being tangible. In my opinion, any body or object that the artist creates existed before, in the vibrating field of his thoughts, dreams, or intentions.
With vaccum, one connects, resonates, foresees, therefore sees, and then acts to offer a new model, a “intimate” vision that is now collective reality”.
He thinks of the Artist, as an organic device that changes potentials into events ready to be experienced.
Here is for you, an extract of this conversation, in words of Art.
» L´ ART & LE DÉVOT «
David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech. 2019
On the occasion of his fourth soloshow in Marrakech, the artist presents an astonishing and vibrant series of paintings, drawings and sculptures inspired by his last trips to the four corners of the world, a fascinating quest for cosmic energies.
We are proud top present the result of 3 intense months of creation in Maghreb. The exhibition displays 5 canvas, 3 large scale paper, 10 smaller drawing, a poem, and 5 sculptures.
Thus, he produces with local artisans, two “silhouettes” in clay, made of stacked jars shaping the body of a woman. Other recipients, “Visage bleu, rouge et jaune” were engraved with lines tracing a clear face whose head seems open. He also used copper to build the body of a golden woman, “Femme & Sphère”, and “Prima Area Vea” a gorgeous face protruding by the light, and eventually a “Temple” in the form of an interlaced couple.
Many large formats on paper are also displayed, “L’Art & le Dévot”, “Être, Mèle Ether & Terre Mère” and “Le Baptème” are made with large lines freely traced with an oilstick, in very few minutes, “as a challenge and desire to sublime the gesture, and its inner truth, in a quest of self knowledge, seeking revelation in each line as if it was a word to be read “. Other artworks such as “Le Temple & Le Disciple” took weeks to be completed, being extremely detailed, full of symbology. It feels like the structure is ornamented for the purpose of magic. To him, “Art is a way to consciously provoque the subtle mutation of “fiction” into reality”, to bring the invisible to light.”
The journey he took, he now offers.
» SER, ENTRE SEMILLA Y CENIZA. «
Delimbo Gallery, Sevilla. 2018
«To be, between seeds and ashes ” is the title of the new exhibition by the artist Guillaume Alby, better known by his artistic name Remed, an exhibition in which he presents a selection of his works produced in the last year.
The exhibition is made up of a total of 12 large-format paintings, 24 drawings and two sculptures that the artist has produced together with artisans from the city of Seville, enriching both his work and his knowledge, as well as at the same time giving support, recognition and visibility of the local art and craft scene.
Remed develops a work with a great relationship between the spiritual, the mathematical and the aesthetic, creating a harmony both visual and sensorial.
With that title, he refers to the human condition, to the context of life itself, as well as to the process of creation. In his words “We know that we born, we live, and we pass away, our body then turning into dust. One might think that a work of art could, at times, pretend to have a longer lifespan than its creator. The creator, being the seed made plant, will provide seeds in his fruits, in his works. Beyond the object, each piece of Art when experienced by the viewer, grows within their perception. The vibration, the emotion, the vision felt will eventually blossom, and/or disappear. Leaving room for another seed to grow, its ashes are the ground of the futur, the foundation, or the ruins that will host the next cycle, the present. Always redefining itself. Nothing disappears, it just constantly rearrange through time, in the endless dance of matter. Only movement is perennial. «
It is the present moment to which Remed seeks to move us with the contemplation of his work, just the moment in which we find ourselves between the seed and the ashes, to make us celebrate life through art. Enjoy the dance !
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» PLENIUM «
David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech. 2017
« PLENIUM, Matière de l’Un Visible » is a reference to the abstract essence of matter, to the yet invisible but infinite potencial of consciousness, to the power of intention, seed of all reality.
We presented a retrospective of the mind states I have been passing through in the latests months of my wandering. Each piece being the mirror of who I feel I am, or want to be, or what I try to see.
I can not say I did had a vision for the show. But I can say the vision of various instants has been fixed on each of the pieces during its process of creation. The intention, or the vision, became real through the act, through the gesture of the arm prolongated with the hand, the brush being the extension of the finger, still connected to the mind and soul.
This exhibition displayed 13 canvas, 12 drawings, 4 ceramic volumes, and one large metal sculpture.
Each canvas, drawing and sculpture, is a sum up, or the result of the many realities that could have happened while my hand was acting. I don’t really think, but rather feel. I see movement, and make a stop in motion when I think it is time for it. Seeking harmony, while I enjoy a specific curve, line or shape, a chosen instant to become the one I live.
On one hand, there is a série of « classic » pieces made of horizontal and vertical lines around which curves are sliding and flowing. « I am (T)here » , « Homme Oiseau », « Visage Voyage », « Ex Latent ».
On the other hand you will see a large série of canvas only made of curves, where the mécanic matrix is dissimulated in an attempt to liberate lines from it. In this série « Femme Sireleone», « Man with Orion and Sun »,« Woman with Moon and Earth »,« Amour Lumière ». Here, all is illusion of free flow, where movement and stillness blend, when figurative and abstract fields fuse into one.
We also présent a série of drawings as a tribute to the line, a song of gestures.« Visage de Vie Vent », « Il au Seul Oeil Bleu », « Aile sera Vie ». Those artworks are almost a dérivation of automatic writing. Their title being the réminiscence of it.
The show also displays various sculptures, made of clay, « Woman with Moon » using simplicity to its extreme, is made of only one continuous sinusoïdal curve, while « Man with sun » is made of a straight line ending in a reverse bell forging his head.
Finally, In opposition to these very sensual works, definitly warm and organic, I eventually worked with metal. The exhibition wouldn’t have been complete without« L’Est Haut Levant », inspired by the last letter of the berbere alphabet, tamazight, also know as « The Free Man ». It shapes a man touching both sky and earth.
My art may be the expression of that desire of connection with higher realms.
Here is a glimpse of the light I see.
» ESSENCE «
David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech. 2015
“ESSENCE”, Songe & Memoire Primaire »
In 2014, I spent another 40 days in the old imperial city, living and working in the medina within the walls of the Kasbah. There, time dissolves. It becomes flexible. This allows me to create several canvases, one after the other, in a sort of tribute to the Genesis, a document on the evolution of the mind, body and Soul during the creation process. From the Intention to the Selected Reality. In the popular neighborhood where I live and work, I know that Time is my friend, and this allows me to create free from anxiety. I am entering a period of deep introspection where my mind can focus on what I choose, rather than what is forced upon me in the modern world. I like to know that I will continue to build my roots on a land that seems to be the garden I once lived in, somewhere on the line of time.
We present «Essence, Dreamtime & Primar Memory» which displays 10 large canvas, 12 drawings of various sizes, styles and techniques, ands 2 metal sculptures build with local kraftmen.
The first period of creation was very intimate, meditative, painting mostly in the silence and lonesomeness of the night. Works like “Khamsa o Anna”, “Vesica Vuelo”, “Kanaal Akundali”, & “Owa Luz Iwa”are vertical and symmetrical. Their colors contrast on a very dark background. They have the feel of stained glass, they are light merging out of the darkness. Then the day has come and the Art became even brighter, like a sunrise
Thus the intimacy would reveal its treasures, by sharing the present with a witness that would not be me, nor the night, but the Muse.
“Le Peintre & La Muse”, ”La Muse, L’Omniscope, & L’Almonaute”, such as “Orion, Kanaal & The Message”are the expression of this second phase, in which the journey is not made alone, but the light is shared, and the message spoken.
In this last opus, the protagonist watches the bud bloom in the palm of his outstretched hand. The seed has transformed. It grew. It grows. From the mind of the sower, appeared what you see. The potential transcended to reality. The abstract became concrete. Intention, vibration, has become matter. The message is what produced it : The act of creation itself.
» EPIPHYSM «
David Bloch Gallery, Marrakech. 2013
“Epyphism, Culture du langage universal” is the name I have chosen for this exhibition at David Bloch Gallery, in Marrakech. The epiphysis or the pineal gland was described by Descartes as the seat of the soul. Since forever, some also call it the third eye. It is the part of the brain that allows one to hear and speak the language of magic, so to wander beyond the laws of time, space, and matter. When activated, the frontier between visible and invisible may be unveiled. Let the journey begin!
In November 2012, I spent forty days in residence in the ryad of the David Bloch gallery. In the heart of a country that I have loved for a long time bearing the name of Morocco. I have had in this place the most profound periods of introspection of my life. I knew Marrakech for more than fifteen years ago. As some may know, my passage at the gates of Africa influenced my life path, my art too. Being there, I discovered other points of view. I felt that time could be an ally rather than an enemy. It is a place of great interest in terms of art, considering that the secular practice of geometry is resulting in an exceptional abstractive figuration, where circles are disguised as squares, where invisible curves take the appearance of straight lines, and volumes are made of the contrast of plains rather than in the shade. Thus, the whole gets hosted in the void, the Light in the color. I see a bridge between «the two worlds». I heard the universal language of timelessness. Here is the resonance of its vibration.
The exhibition hosted 9 large scale canvas, 10 drawings of different sizes and techniques, 3 ceramic volumes, 2 metal sculptures, 1 light box, and an engraved metal sheet.
“Consciously or not, intuitive geometry is the structure of my expression, the aim of my research, both its means and results. Therefore, I naturally began to dig around our ancestral culture by focusing my attention on the Berber writings, creating the opus «The sower and the wheel”. A poem, made of 5 letters. Then I played with the numbers, giving birth to the work “Solar”, made of the first 7 numbers, associated with the planets of our solar system. Finally, I drew inspiration from the symbols and geometry specific to Islamic art. “Khamsa Sakina” or “CosmoKhamsa” are its fruits. I allowed myself to interpret “the hand of fatima”, which brings a sense of protection, peace and harmony. I also chose to write a sentence, “Knowing how to lose oneself in order to be able to find the self” using the know-how of ironworkers to perpetuate in metal the essence of an intention. Later, I returned to body language, taking it to an extreme simplification in the canvas “Amor Asi”. It is a couple, seating together, their individuality seem to fade away, sometimes merging into each other, giving the appearance of a united whole. The last painting I made is called “Fifth Dimensional Love Machine”. This is the only opus I have made knowingly using the Golden Ratio, also known as Phi. I drew a grid on the whole canvas, respecting the divine proportions. Like the Arabs, I wrote from the right, to the left. But I was drawing bodies of beings, not letters. Although each of their member is isolated, linked, they form a global universe. In the center of the work, two intertwined hearts merge, driving a system of movement.
Nothing disappears, it just mutates, only Movement is eternal.”
