About the work
A propos du travail
Über die arbeit
Interview : Radio
France Culture
Bio / Contact
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2020 - 2025
(selected works)
Virtuous Circles
 
Made On Purpose
 
At First Sight
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On The Side
(selected works 1995-2020)
 
 
 

 

JEAN-DANIEL SALVAT
About the work

Reverse paintings

"I paint on the reverse side of a transparent vinyl (later affixed to canvas stretchers). Any tactile sign is, this way, erased from the work. No pictoral matter remains, just a mirror surface. I give the painting an ambiguous identity by intending it to work just as a facsimile of itself.

I deliberately focus on the production system of a painting, on the way it is perceived as an object. Nevertheless, without being reduced to a process, through different series, I want the work allowed to change indefinitely and open itself to any potentiality."

New York, 1995

 

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