Egoportraits, Stéphane Martineau

Je privilégie les images réfléchies dans les miroirs souvent utilisés dans ce genre photographique populaire et qui sont également l’un des éléments utilisés dans la peinture nommée « vanités » et « Stillleben » à partir du XVIIe siècle.

Au fur et à mesure que je peins mes compositions, je dépeins des décompositions qui résultent en des vanités contemporaines.

Cette série se nomme « Egoportraits ».

La technique utilisée est la peinture acrylique sur canevas.

Le format des tableaux de cette série est de 70 cm X 100 cm

English

I paint impermanence by representing the decrepitude of matter, of the support and of the subject.

This withering is expressed by the texture treated in trompe l'oeil, sometimes integrated flat on the support, sometimes following volume of the subject in a playful joust of juxtapositions between representation of reality and reality itself.

My work is an allegory pitting the imperishable with the perishable, by proposing images that contradict the immediacy, the ephemeral youth, the seduction, the desire, responding to the stereotypes of beauty found in the self-portrait (/selfie) with the passage and the outrage of time, symbolized by the canvas which will seem torn or disintegrated in some paintings, while the material - the paint itself as a medium- seems to be torn or disintegrated in some of my work.

I favor mirror reflections often used in this popular photographic genre and which is also one of the elements used in the painting called "vanities" and "Stillleben" from the 17th century.

As I paint my compositions, I depict decompositions that result in akind of contemporary vanity.

This series is called "Egoportraits".

The technique used is acrylic paint on canvas.

The format of the paintings in this series is 70 cm x 100 cm

Berlin, March 2020