Double direction targets

In 2008, Georges Koutsandréou brought in a new concept in his painting : the double direction target . This concept is in line with the « Conjonction » movement and gives it further precision.

It’s one of the possible developments of CONJONCTION which Martina Charbonnel has not reproduced however in her own painting .

To understand clearly what follows let us remember that the « CONJONCTION » movement expresses a double passage of the humanoïd figure in two dimensions only.

There’s a first passage when the « figure », as Barnett Newman used to say about his  zips : « declares space without sharing it, » as if it passed over the canvas, with a deformation due to the speed of the passage. This first phase of the Movement was expressed by the « figuration supra-naïve » manifest of December 21^st, 2004 .

In 2007, the movement was called : « conjonction » from the moment when the « figure » could get into the target ( representing the tunnel effect in two dimensions only ) and also pass through the canvas.

Georges Koutsandréou has now gone further with the concept by adding the notion of « return » thanks to the introduction of a kind of  Möbius tape at the target centre :

« As the target represents the tunnel effect in two dimensions to go to the other side, the question is how to come back… Therefore the target centre is changed into an epicentre represented by a « Möbius » tape, slightly twisted or united with a thread, in two dimensions ( with no perspective) : So when our look moves along the epicentre it goes all around it, for a time behind the painting ( between painting and the canvas itself ), then naturally returning along the same side of the tape.

Thus our look goes behind the painting and back in relation to the figure implied in the conjunction of the passages over and through the canvas. »

Georges Koutsandréou :  2008 sorcière