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 LILLIES, 2010 POLYMERS, STAINLESS STEEL, WOOD FRAME 45,5X55,5 IN./116X142 CM. «
Simon raaB  tIBEtAN FLAGS, 2008 POLYMERS, STAINLESS STEEL, WOOD FRAME 56,5X40 IN. /144X100 CM.
 cOMPLEXIFIcAtION, 2011 POLYMERS, STAINLESS STEEL, gRANITE 33X14,5X12 IN. /84X38X31 CM.
Born in Toulouse, France. Lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA, USA
not knowing. My art form is called Parleau, derived from the French "Par
THE ARTIST ONLINE www.simonraabgallery.com l'eau", which means "through the water." It is a combination of painting
and sculpture-images enamelled on metal foil and then formed by hand
to different degrees of spatial reflective abstraction. It is a creative and
destructive process, which adds a random moving character to the surface.
Parleau evolves to simulate the essence of seeing images through the
rippling surface of water which constantly change. The image of a face
is at one moment kind, at another moment angry and cruel. By its very
nature, something, which is always changing can never be an absolute.

preconceptions and false anchors. I am attracted to neither the abstract
nor the figurative, but rather the transition and confusion between the
two. I find comfort in a figurative form and I am compelled to abstract it by
deforming the surface. The result is a change in the pattern of colours and an
altered way in which light is reflected. In my work, you may see something
fleetingly familiar and comfortable, and my hope is to then take that away
from you. It is all temporal, undefined, chaotic and uncomfortable. In the
frustrating discomfort, I want you to relax and float on the turbulence of
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