by Agape Charmani
The work of French artist Philippe Huart might remind one of a personal diary, a notebook, a series of sketches, as the artist puts both his visual and verbal thoughts into his paintings.
Huart takes a notion and creates an image for it using candy, flowers and guns, depicting this notion as if this is how he sees it in his brain. His glossy images become a bearer of satire, a means to express his instincts. It seems like all the visual information that is bombarding us has been blended, and Huart simply put in order the used ingredients. Commenting on the aesthetics and by achieving a glossy perfection, he creates works of a distorted pop art, aiming to trigger the viewer’s emotions through his images. Focusing on a certain cultural background and media knowledge, he invites the viewer into his own interpretation of the world, creating a much safer and, strangely, a beautiful reality.
“Huart concentrates his efforts on a near-anaesthetizing, almost stupefying level of pictorial investigation where the meaning contained in the image spawns comparisons to conceptual artists. Paradoxically, his vibrantly polychromatic work reflects a quite somber, emotionally moving tonality that seems deeply marked by death,” writes Renaud Faroux about the artist.
