Memories of an Exhibition Series
Like a dream one only becomes aware of upon waking, it was only once completed that this project revealed itself to me as a synthesis of two themes dear to me: painting and memory.
So then, what remains in our minds of artworks when they elude our gaze?
What endures are traces revealed through recollection. They are sequences of blotches that connect to form diaphanous images—in other words, memories. In this action, so close to imagination, the goal is once again to bring the artwork to life, to revive past forms by reactivating them in our present.
A painting, in its materiality, is the precipitate of the artist's imagination. This act of projecting images is akin to memory, where mental images are arranged to reconstruct the past. These two movements—one oriented toward the future, the other toward the past—meet in the latent space, a place where ideas and forms coexist in potential states before being revealed.
Memories of an Exhibition was born from the desire to paint this space—not by representing the artworks themselves, but rather their memories.
Here, artificial imagination does not oppose organic memory; instead, it acts as a machine for retrieving the memory of an aesthetic experience. It becomes a universal canvas where painters coexist not as figures of the past, but as potentialities or echoes of what could have been and what might still emerge.
In this imaginary space, color acts as a detonator for the reminiscence of works seen by our contemporaries—and potentially dreamed by the painters themselves.
Memories of an Exhibition offers a wander through the memories of the paintings of six illustrious artists: Pierre Bonnard, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh.
500 unique artworks inspired by Bonnard, Kandinsky, Klimt, Matisse, Monet and Van Gogh.
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Memories of an Exhibition
