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Dorian Cohen: Dans l'Int茅rieur des Silences
By means of a realistic figurative painting of classical tradition, Dorian Cohen focuses on the creation of urban imagery among landscapes, mirages and naturalistic genre scenes. Organized in a series of images, his work builds a genealogy of urban narratives by studying the pictorial and narrative mechanics at work between each of these series.
鈥� The light radiates, soft, delicately infused, gradually bringing the shades of colors to their maturity. From the space of the canvas thus enshrouded emanates an overpowering tenderness. Water-green, light blue or woody yellow. In the interior scenes, the brightness comes from a glass window, a high-placed glass roof or from an artificial neon light, making the earthenware of a kitchen or the waxed wood of a table sparkle. In the exterior ones, it is the trees that open the field to the sun, as per their wish.
Dorian Cohen paints everyday life scenes of seemingly happy banality. Yet, noticeably, between the more or less vigorous folds of the drapes, the more or less vivid drama of a family unspoken truths is felt, in the scarlet flush on cheeks after a game of football with friends, the gratitude of a generation鈥檚 memories can be read. Slowly, with the meticulous attention of solitary studio work, the artist pursues the ambition of a narrative picture whose core is not only the representation of the present moment, in the style of a photographic clich茅, but that of the representation of passing time, advancing age, childhood flying by, the gravity of adulthood that constrains. Slowly, indeed, for it is perceptible that Dorian Cohen鈥檚 paintings are like gems that the eye polishes. Through the gaze, the shadows thicken and the beams of light brighten. In the same subtle way that tree leaves鈥� contours are defined after a rainstorm. He鈥檚 now a painter of the intimate and domestic space as much as he鈥檚 a landscape painter.
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By means of a realistic figurative painting of classical tradition, Dorian Cohen focuses on the creation of urban imagery among landscapes, mirages and naturalistic genre scenes. Organized in a series of images, his work builds a genealogy of urban narratives by studying the pictorial and narrative mechanics at work between each of these series.
鈥� The light radiates, soft, delicately infused, gradually bringing the shades of colors to their maturity. From the space of the canvas thus enshrouded emanates an overpowering tenderness. Water-green, light blue or woody yellow. In the interior scenes, the brightness comes from a glass window, a high-placed glass roof or from an artificial neon light, making the earthenware of a kitchen or the waxed wood of a table sparkle. In the exterior ones, it is the trees that open the field to the sun, as per their wish.
Dorian Cohen paints everyday life scenes of seemingly happy banality. Yet, noticeably, between the more or less vigorous folds of the drapes, the more or less vivid drama of a family unspoken truths is felt, in the scarlet flush on cheeks after a game of football with friends, the gratitude of a generation鈥檚 memories can be read. Slowly, with the meticulous attention of solitary studio work, the artist pursues the ambition of a narrative picture whose core is not only the representation of the present moment, in the style of a photographic clich茅, but that of the representation of passing time, advancing age, childhood flying by, the gravity of adulthood that constrains. Slowly, indeed, for it is perceptible that Dorian Cohen鈥檚 paintings are like gems that the eye polishes. Through the gaze, the shadows thicken and the beams of light brighten. In the same subtle way that tree leaves鈥� contours are defined after a rainstorm. He鈥檚 now a painter of the intimate and domestic space as much as he鈥檚 a landscape painter.
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