The Future's Rapture II (J.C. avril 2006)
François-Xavier Courrèges’s works resonate with each other, forming a fabric that connects the human dimension of our impulses while developing over time through the creative process. The diluted aspect of the watercolour that the artist uses here echoes the recurrent use of slow motion in his videos. This aesthetic choice gives his creations a fantastical and poetic dimension. The Future’s Rapture II (J.C. avril 2006) takes on a more cinematographic reality through a futuristic vision that expresses an expectation and a desire. The title Future’s Rapture II is a religious reference that evokes the faithful’s hope to travel to paradise after death. The diptych format of these two framed watercolours on paper allows for the presentation of several emotions, between personal projection and collective history. The sober portrait with its soft green hue and piercing gaze seems to express the expectation, attention, even the tension directed towards this delicate rose with its ghostly aspect which seems to be within reach, bending towards the subject’s delicate forehead, without hiding either the beauty of its petals or the danger of its thorns. Will passion and suffering be able to give themselves away before the afterlife?
Text written by Manon Prévost-Van Dooren as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006