Jean-Claude Bélégou 2005/2010 ÉLOGE DE L'AMOUR
I am looking for simple things, I believe that they are more and more simple, I have no vocation to put myself at the service of an ideology, however full of good feelings and pseudo-social or pseudo-documentary intentions, and the growing instrumentalization of art and artists in the service of Culture, that is to say in the service of norms, and of politics, never ceases to seem frightening to me and threatens to open up the perspective of the worst: A petty-bourgeois art of democratization-cultural massification, an art made of poor, media-like ideas, that is to say close to the images of the media that have invaded our lives, of advertisements, which can give the illusion of intelligence to institutions and their audiences, a soothing art.
Les Beaux jours, and no doubt all the series of this period, are this search for the humble, for what there is nothing to talk about. Of a certain happiness, of a newfound peace.
Everything is always scrupulously staged, put into images, that is to say composed in the full sense of the word, from the choice of the color of the walls to that of the most modest accessory, including that of the clothes. More and more they are paintings, perhaps "genre scenes", paintings of the most humble, the most immediate life
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