Forest Call No. 478 – Pierre-Luc Poujol
Acrylic on canvas – 130 x 195 cm (2021)
Work No. 478
It's a moment suspended in time. An original space, where the encounter is born, the desire to share. The same one that led, a few months ago, the French painter Pierre-Luc Poujol to open his studio and his desire for creativity to Nicolas Alstaedt , a brilliant Franco-German cellist with a talent as generous as it is multifaceted.
To do this, the two artists chose to illustrate their exchanges by creating a rhythmic landscape entirely dedicated to the Cello Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach . Thus, in the studio open to the elements, facing a restless and impatient nature, Pierre-Luc Poujol uses music to compose his work. A first for the artist!
Brushes in hand, he listens to the music to capture its new language. The notes float, scatter, and intertwine to suddenly reveal hues and movements.
The sounds and colors then correspond and succeed in weaving a subtle bond of shared inspiration that delights the painter. The cello strings become the colors and the bow, the gaze that gives life to the soul, makes it vibrate until it transforms into emotion.
Little by little, music and painting invade the room. They intertwine, merge, and better still, combine to create a pictorial symphony.
Pierre-Luc Poujol creates live, the gesture devoid of any automatism. With his arm and his brush-like hand, he deploys a sort of musical seismograph that records energy. Through rotations, leanings, and poses, he traces, brushes, projects, and drips the paint to reveal a unique score, composed of colors and sounds.
Nicolas Alstaedt 's gestures are, in a sense, almost identical to his own. In this subtle duet, this friendly tête-à-tête , Pierre-Luc Poujol seeks to create what cannot be seen but heard. Painting, then, is no longer a passive surface. It actively confronts the painter! The arrangement of colors and shapes traces the variations and reproduces spiritual impressions borrowed from the nature that surrounds him and which he particularly loves.
Thus offering the outside world a unique and penetrating musical calligraphy . ✨
