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oliVier duboiS-Cherrier

lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican republic

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In his artistic expression, Olivier D uses each component (materials, characterizes Olivier D’s paintings. Any outside material, which is natural
pigments, substrates, models) to express topics that haunt his mind. His or synthetic, that he has come across on his journey, is integrated into the
works are filled with hidden senses and deep messages, the ones of human paint in order to participate fully in the artistic expression. “I have no purely
sensibility confronted with the shocks provoked by his own development. established roots, I do not belong to well defined race, and I am forced to
The thick and liquid materials express the artist’s mixed origins and the fit as being a part of a whole. The experiment, the movement, the change,
shadow of his exiled ancestors. Symbolism of waters which separate the nomadism are at the same time my assets and my weaknesses” says
territories, expression of the isolation due to the specificity of the islands, Olivier D. The thickness and the strength of its colors tell, with its several
coats of paint, the moods of the human being confronted with the diverse
stages of his life. Just as Nicolas de Staël, his diverse interventions on
the canvas risk at any time to upset the precarious balance which he has
already painted earlier. It is from the deepest part of his being, sometimes
tapped, sometimes excited from which is born Olivier D’s work. An intimate,
immodest and without concession painting, which approaches the taboo
subjects of the contemporary man faced with his close relations and his
spiritual environment.
 perspeCtiVe D’aVenir, 2010 MIxED MEDIA ON CANvAS 52,5x71 IN. /133x180 CM.
 traCes Laissées, 2009 MIxED MEDIA ON ArCHES PAPEr 8x12,5 IN. /20x31,5 CM.
 CoLère (HUnGer), 2011 ACrylIC, OIl, MIxED MEDIA ON lINEN 30x30 IN. /76x76 CM.

Hélène Filipecki, Director of H+O apartgallery
98 gallery of Contemporary Art
www.hoapartgallery.com