Cyril Tricaud
Peintre
The back is Adam & Eve, driven from Paradise, as God watches them go.
The backs of sculptures, which we can walk around, both to observe what is less shown and to adopt the same point of view as them.
Paint the models from behind to capture what they themselves cannot see, and secretly, tenderly capture their presence.
The title of the exhibition, “En attendant Cythère” (“Waiting for Cytherea”), refers to Watteau’s “L’Embarquement pour Cythère” (“Embarkation for Cytherea”), which recounts an amorous pilgrimage: couples embark for or return from Cytherea, the Greek island considered to be the birthplace of Venus, goddess of love.
While Watteau shows the laughing, libertine complicity between the protagonists, Tricaud presents men and women mostly alone, though playing with the idea of two (mirror poses, complementarities between clothed and unclothed)… When together, they struggle (both to bind and resist each other), or share a moment of respite, looking in the same direction: towards Cytherea.
These characters are waiting for love.
Like waiting for Godot; not knowing what will or won’t happen.
Without growing weary.
For the beauty of the journey, evoked by Cavafy in his poem “Ithaca”.
Absorbed by their dreams, occupied only by hope, they are indifferent to us, who contemplate them.
They devote themselves to an elsewhere on the margins of time and space.
Their vaguely, that is, poetically, lazy inaction is a refusal to participate in the agitation of the world.
As Beckett would say in his Godot: “It’s safer to do nothing.
(Text by Juliette Lamarca)
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