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PHILIPPE THÉLIN

Lives and works in Montreux, Switzerland
www.philippethelin.ch

A painter is lost when he finds himself (Max Ernst)
APPROACHES - Painting is a silent act. It means for me The close attention to observation, the sense of
expressing internal conflicts and not considering real life’s composition, the juxtaposition of complementary colours,
illusions nor the evolution of our society. My work is lyrical the drawing by the colour, colour as a vibration, my own

and would tend to succeed in exorcising ghosts of yesteryear eruptive ecstasy, vagueness or precision, the wanted
and buried recollections in order to give them a new life clumsiness or the delicate stroke of the brush on the
through the colour’s vibration, by means of thick and violent canvas are as a whole my working tools.
strokes. Painting is to struggle with the outline of the drawing Erotomaniac by the colour, satirist by the drawing, I

against the spread of colours, it means drawing straight into confusedly search for a mad excitation that would deliver
the paint to confer it edginess and swiftness. The subject me from the inner sluggishness because the good fortune
itself is of minor importance. To scratch, to trace, to burst, to of painting has a deep complicity with a flashing form
spread, to mix, to throw, to erase, to strike out, to gloss, to of madness, of excess, which allows encounters in the

veil, to soil, to finger-paint and knife-paint, all these express innermost being. As for me, absolute references are for
the un-mastered violence of that hand-to-hand fight. example Hals, Caravage, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Zorn,

338  UNE BALLE DANS LA TÊTE, 2015 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 28,5X36,5 IN. | 73X92 CM.
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ETUDE POUR LA CRUCIFIXION, 2011 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 25,5X31,5 IN. | 65X81 CM.