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TYR

Born Thierry Mortier lives and works in ghent, Belgium

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preoccupied with semiotics and the simplicity of aesthetic beauty, or the the seeming emptiness of the image. and not to expect more. for the image
aesthetic beauty of simplicity. Tyr searches for the instinctive beauty in his alone is enough. no more paintings of the old riches. no more ecclesiastical
paintings and work. “J’ai envie d’un art simple”. painting only what (he commissions. religion is dead and our euro-western property has become
believes) is needed in an image combined with a need for immaculate lines virtual. you are what you own no longer applies in these modern times. the
and finishes, his paintings tend to be borderline graphic. globalization of the net has projected all of us into the public domain. today
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the we will more likely inherit internet domains than actual (tangible) property.
sitter.”(Oscar wilde) ... stating the obvious? it’s all about the image. just the new perspectives get imposed. even “big brother” has become a family
image. there is no need for emotion in aesthetics. beauty cannot be defined friend. it’s no longer a problem. we are starting to see what we couldn’t see
in those terms. she’s inherently incapable of having feelings. they are left to before. we are contented with the illusion of property, the illusion of privacy.
the spectator. as such the paintings can maintain their simplicity. clean ... and we touch upon the untouchable. and we are no worse off for it. today the
cold. still. there is no escaping Mr. wilde’s theorem. every portrait painted image can be empty. the illusion suffices. figuration is the new abstract. (not
without feeling might just turn out to be a portrait of the artist as well. that it wasn’t abstract before, we just didn’t see the meta-reality it actually
perhaps portraits are not meant to be of the sitters. represents. semiotic architecture). (r)evolution is upon us. our personal space
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible” ( Oscar wilde). is growing inwards. we are reaching new realities, perhaps a little less full
one needs vision to “C true”. to acknowledge the depth of the human (depends on the interpretation) but not less real. on the contrary. we are
surface. starting to see the visible. starting to unravel the mystery.

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