Often "abstract" at first glance, it begins with a few preparatory sketches. The materials are installed by a particular process of stencils applied to the canvas with a knife, and then of washes.
In this elaboration process, Stéphane Moizan paints flat on a table. So, even if in the end he shows a painting, the space of investigation exceeds his frame at the moment of conception: the layers overflow the field of work. What remains can be considered as a "fragment" of a gestural practice, a non-visible but suggested off-field. It took several unsuccessful experiments before I was able to formulate and perform these acts in accordance with this predefined relationship.
In this elaboration process, Stéphane Moizan paints flat on a table. So, even if in the end he shows a painting, the space of investigation exceeds his frame at the moment of conception: the layers overflow the field of work. What remains can be considered as a "fragment" of a gestural practice, a non-visible but suggested off-field. It took several unsuccessful experiments before I was able to formulate and perform these acts in accordance with this predefined relationship.
