| Christiane Schwaller:
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"Through a varied range of expression, which includes as well as
filigree-work and Japanese prints, fresco and stained glass, the
artist can respect his inner vision which invites thought and mediation.
His art is far from suggesting serenity and his province is not that of
the day-dream nor of supremo beauty, but rather that of turmoil, as
revealed by the gravity of line and colour, and the instinctive
draughtsmanship, at times violent and cross-hatched, but invariably
pregnant and vivid.
To appreciate and understand such works of art, they must be restored
to their controversial, uneasy, questioning context. In them, the human
being appears, metamorphosed by his conflicts, his anguish, his obsessions,
a storm of feelings bursts within him, and passion, like resignation,
transfigures him.
The artist's expression of form, the vehemence of his angular style of
drawing, recall ROUNALT.
His work springs from imagination and inner vision rather than striving
to reproduce the outward appearance of reality. The artist shows a
preference for portraiture- although he strives against his taste for
faces - and his favourite subjects include Christ, peasant women,
the Fates, clowns, allegorical and metaphorical representations.
His favourite techniques are wash and monotype. Direct, vigorous, swift
notation, a flowing sinuosity combined with the multiplicity of the means
of expression (graphics, oils, lino engraving, ceramics, metalloplasty,
tapestry) render a wide range of profoundly human sentiments."
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