Gabriel Amine.
The Birth of Fire
Before being color, this work is a breath. Before being form, it is memory. Before being a painting, it is birth.
It begins naked, like a body.
The wood welcomes it, like a spine.
Then come the first gestures, almost surgical: fragments of foam , rings, lines like veins.
The anatomy of the soul is established.
Then the flesh takes shape—with lively, nervous, pulsing putty.
Layers accumulate, hollows deepen, masses rise. Everything vibrates like skin remembering.
Then comes the breath: the color.
Above, the sacred. A red vagina, a womb, a hatching through love. The golden egg—original light—rests like a promise.
Then childhood bursts forth, in four inner faces:
Red : a nervous, spoiled, fiery being. Excessive love becomes a storm. Purple : sensitive sweetness, life through rose-tinted glasses, hope in bloom.
Gray : nothingness. A loss of bearings, a floating, dissolved soul.
Blue & Black : The abyss. Inner hell. A slow, silent, endless fall.
Around, the wooden circles become cells, imprints, memories frozen in the living.
The cloth is deposited there like a scar.
The stone weighs like truth.
Everything here is meaningful. Every material, every color, every shape is a fragment of existence.
It is not a figurative work.
It is an embodied work.
An intimate genesis, where matter becomes biography, where abstraction becomes body, where art becomes an act of survival.
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Medium : Pictorial sculpture on wood – mixed techniques
Engraving, acrylic paint, putty, addition of stones, fabrics and recycled elements (foam, wooden rings, cloth).
Texture :
A contrasting combination of smooth areas and dense reliefs, achieved by layering hand-modeled putty. The material is deliberately worked raw, with an organic, almost carnal effect. The hollows and rough edges give the whole an intense tactile depth.
Colors :
A vivid, contrasting, and expressive palette. Warm, incandescent tones (reds, golds, fuchsias) contrast with cool blues, deep blacks, and saturated greens. The ensemble evokes inner fire, the drive for life, and emotional fragmentation.
Composition :
Ovoid shape evoking a body or a flame. Symbolic vertical organization: birth, fragmentation, fall. Four distinct zones representing states of being. Use of circles as imprints, cells, or emotional nuclei. The gaze follows a fluid but tormented line, in an introspective journey.
Finishing :
Meticulous work of painting in thick layers, with accentuation of volumes. Each area is chiseled, brushed, patinated, revealing the strength and vulnerability of the material. The whole reads like an inner map, a body on fire.