ILS ONT TOUS ÉTÉ RÉINCARNÉ. Gérald Panighi et Philippe Jusforgues. 19 November to 11 January 2014 Gérald Panighi.
ILS ONT TOUS ÉTÉ RÉINCARNÉ. Gérald Panighi et Philippe Jusforgues. 19 November to 11 January 2014 Gérald Panighi. Of course, on first seeing Gérald Panighi’s small vignettes covering an entire wall with a certain casualness, as if they were mere ordinary Post-its, my gaze went astray into this dizzying atomisation. There is plenty to see and to read in Gérald’s work. Immediately – though it is certainly a bit silly – I thought that he must have feasted on quite a lot of Strange, as many boys of his generation did, and perhaps even stumbled, in his childhood, on traumatising issues of “Détective” in which the blows landed, despite the hyper-expressiveness of the figures drawn by Angelo Di Marco, do not produce only onomatopoeias. At that distant time of his life, he may also have remained rather puzzled before Magritte’s “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, an anti-tautology so seductive, after all… If representation is not the real, the dissociation conjugated in the mode dear to the Surrealists holds an even more abstruse charm. Nothing is more enigmatically bewitching than this avowed malfunction of the image. We appreciated it in Magritte, as we revered it in the 1980s, in the more trivial world of illustration with Glenn Baxter… The absurd is the occlusive answer to all derisory speculations, and that is precisely what manages to be deliciously joyful without ever oozing the slightest pretension in the creations of Gérald Panighi. Philipe Justforgues. ,In 2005, coming across a suitcase of reprinted family photos, Philippe Jusforgues found an opportunity to experiment with collage. “It was like a game… I would change a face and the whole image was upset… The realism of photography and the lightness of drawing came together… My characters took on flesh and my palette of emotions became broader…” His minimalist approach often involves an amateur photograph onto which a printed document, a drawn fragment, or ink applied directly is added, revealing an unexpected link that gives them a second life. A form of poetic recycling…
