The alchemy of nature
« Seeking to give form to the organic nature of ink, tested by water and salt on paper, I drew a breath, immersed in a flow of air, light, and matter. A close encounter with the lungs of the world, to which our existences are connected. Yann Bagot engages in a veritable struggle with the landscape when he draws. in situ With ink, water, and salt, the chaos of rocks or the mosses and trunks of the forests. Similar to this "living stained glass" that the artist sees in "the breakthrough of light through the foliage", His work is a flow of matter, shadow and light.
Partly the result of chance – due to the use of water and salt – its "pitted" rocks and bark seem to breathe and throb within their concretions. Frozen flows – yet appearing to move – of blacks and grays flecked with saline whites, as if crystallized, the flows, like a stain, constantly oscillating between form and formlessness, become metaphors for life and delineate, in vivo, organic movements and metamorphoses. Antediluvian crystallizations, his monumental rocks, in their silvery and powdery mantles, also appear as a metaphor for time. From plant to mineral, in communion with the sap oozing and crackling beneath the mosses and bark, the sea spray and the breath of the wind caressing the motionless stones, Yann Bagot tries "to intensify the powers of matter". An almost alchemical quest, fascinating and magnificent.
Solo exhibition “The Intimate Hour of the World” – Robert Dantec Gallery
5, Place de la Grande-Fontaine, Belfort
Until December 17, 2022
Group exhibition “Monochromes” – Tristan Vyskoc Studio
70, avenue de la Grande-Armée, Paris 17e
Juntil January 12, 2023
