PAINTING CUTOUT

Wide Open

Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers

16 × 12 in | 40,6 × 30,5 cm

Painting cutout Wide Open by Julien Gardair in space for scale

Availability

This painting is available for purchase online on Artsy and for in-person viewing in New York via Garvey | Simon Gallery.

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Details

Abstract cut and stitched painting by Julien Gardair. Colorful organic shapes in shades of pink, blue, green, and white resembling a face.

The background

The painting cutout is built on a
foundation of raw canvas on which are transferred strong teal and ruby red.

The fold

The double-sided painting on top comes with one side covered with expressive variations of dark blue, teal, and green, and on the other side pink and white shades.

The cut

is rather detailed and the ensemble evokes a figure with a central-eyed shape. In the upper middle, a pink shape resembles a head tilting toward the back.

Featured in

GALLERY EXHIBITION

Concurrence

Julien Gardair and Melanie Vote

20 March – 4 May 2024

DFN Project, New York

DFN Project, New York

The exhibition offers an intimate exploration of works by artists Julien Gardair and Melanie Vote, who beyond their individual artistic pursuits, share a bond as a married couple.

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Left: Julien Gardair, Zaouj, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers. Center: Melanie Vote, Flamboyan, 2023, 16-x12in, oil paper mounted on wood panel. Right: Julien Gardair, Striped, 2023, 16x12in, Acrylic on canvas, folded, cut, stitched, and stretched over wooden stretchers.

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Close up on artist Julien Gardair hand stitching a painting cutout.

The painting cutout series combines the materiality of Support/Surfaces with the exuberance of Pattern and Decoration while sharing the radical constraints of Minimal Art.

The works are ambiguous and simultaneously political statements, bold paintings, decorative ornamentations, textile, and craft works.

They are tactile and abstract while including sometimes represented subjects.

A double-sided painting is folded, cut, unfolded twice, then stitched to another.

The folds expose what lies behind them. The stitches are a visible and healing way to assemble the parts, inviting the possibility of restoring the painting to its original state.

The series explores the interaction of these surfaces. It creates a trustworthy space where nothing gets discarded or forgotten.

By utilizing every part, I aim to make more with less and reconcile the apparent contradictions between positive and negative shapes, figuration and abstraction, freedom and constraints, one and another, past, present, and future.

The cuts follow a sustainable system that generates zero waste in a continuous piece.

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