'Roma Arte in Nuvola, 2024'

'Aquae'

solo show of César Bardoux

Artist Statement :

"These works were born at the intersection of scientific and aesthetic fields, a quantum space where biology and physics meet to give shape to the intangible. Inspired by concepts such as fluid dynamics, laminar flow or the behavior of supercritical fluids, they manifest phenomena into images oscillating between solid, liquid and gaseous states.

The matter is unstable, in perpetual motion. It responds to telluric and stellar vibrations, subject to the whims of the universe and the memory of water, evoked by the work of Masaru Emoto. Each work is thus a solution in the scientific sense of the term, a material in the making, manipulated, transformed.

The creation starts virtually: 3D allows a sculptural approach, where each shape is patiently developed in vertices and pixels. This tool offers a way out from the traditional flatness of painting, making it possible to manufacture, manipulate and explore volumes before freezing them in 2D. Paradoxically, this digital materiality serves as an intermediate step to embody the organic in painting, to symbolize fluidity and transparency with means that seem to deny them.

With the help of sensations such as pressure, viscosity, elasticity or capillarity, these works question the way in which the machine can speak of the living. Can we represent the turbulences and connections of matter without constraining them?
In this particular case, painting is a tool at the service of the subject, disappearing behind it to make room for the illusion of a living matter.

Closer to an image maker rather than a painter, I explore the memory of materials, their plasticity and their behavior under constraints. Each painting is an experience: a visualization of the invisible links between the life sciences and universal vibrations, translated into matter, color, and frozen movement."

César Bardoux (1991) is a French painter who lives and works in Aubervilliers. After being graduated at the Beaux-Arts in Paris (2017), his work has been exhibited at the Collection Lambert (Avignon, FR), in different Parisian galleries, in Germany and also in Kuwait.