Actuality 2

2  Discovery of new pictorial techniques

Martina Charbonnel’s painting brings figuration to its simplest expression to represent the deformations due to the speed of the silhouette’s passage, (an astronomical speed, or decelerated speed of light). The silhouettes are not painted and express the urgency of a transit between two passages « over » or absorbed, in the centre of a rectangular target, « to the other side » of the canvas.

Contrary to this process, Georges Koutsandréou always tries to find new materials to paint with. He had elaborated a technique with paint dusts in 1991 when his painting was not figurative yet and he used feathers’ auras.
This technique had attracted the attention of the Jean Fournier Gallery  who had bought some of his works.

Quite recently, he has resumed one of his former studies as he has tried to find a luminescent paint, reflecting light such as mirrors or precious stones.
After some various experiences, as the melting of tin, he has found a hybrid formula to this end which enables him to work out vertiginous glazes. The concepts of the movement do not change but, since the beginning of 2009, he has given up paint dusts for reflections of light.

3 Promotion and diffusion of the movement

The promotion of the CONJONCTION  movement is made essentially on Internet for want of other interesting proposals. Martina Charbonnel animates several blogs on Press sites allowing a fairly good visibility.

Our project in 2009 : a book recalling the history of the CONJONCTION movement and its background, the preliminary stages with the supra-naïve figuration, the keys to understanding our painting and its prospects.
For want of an editor the book will be published by ourselves, anyway.

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