Second phase of the movement

Perpendicular conjunction of the passages :

We assert that the passage of the figure over the rectangular format is in a perpendicular conjunction with the other passage through  the canvas  ( in two dimensions) by the target symbolizing a tunnel effect.

 At the start of 2005, we published  the first assertions of Supranaive Figuration with Internet. Two years later (April 2007), the movement entered a second phase, adding a new concept to the previous ones.

We firstly asserted :  While “ declaring” space, the passage of the figure over the rectangular format expresses a third dimension without using perspective.

To the first passage of the figure, we have added a second one by means of a target with tunnel effect.

 To understand this new concept requires that we call  to mind  Kenneth Noland ‘s targets,  implying  the idea of passage by tunnel effect, i.e: a passage through the canvas towards “another universe” ( conceptually speaking and in scientific anticipation).

Scientists would demonstrate the tunnel effect with the spiral example. A target is a pictorial representation of a spiral in only two dimensions; It is a way to express depth without the help of perspective. 

Supranaive Figuration applies this concept to figuration.

In both pictorial processes we newly  express the passage of the figure into  “another universe” by means of the tunnel effect target  from where the figure is passing  “through” the canvas.

In Georges Koutsandréou‘ s  new  painting  tunnel effect targets are oval . The rotating speed  of the  tunnel is increased by irregular ellipsoïdal rings...

In Martina Charbonnel’s  new artworks, tunnel effect targets are rectangular. Her recent paintings represent  a detail of the center of target. A difference of colours  between the epicentre and  the sides of the centre  shows various consistencies of the tunnel walls.

In both cases, there is a perpendicular conjunction of the  figural passage over the format  with the passage inside the format,  through the canvas, so to say, by the tunnel effect target. 

That perpendicular CONJUCTION over and through the rectangular format is a fundamantal assertion, which has never been applied to painting, not even abstract painting...

  april 2007

In october 2007 Supranaive figuration became CONJONCTION