Painted subway tickets - Each one made one day in the subway the experiment of the glance of the other. I would like to remember me all these anonymous faces and their glances. This is why,
daily, I paint on a ticket my neighbour in the wagon . This project began with the autumn 2004. It is a painting under colour and format, vibration, time constraints. These painted faces
appear always inaccurate. I endeavour to have the memory of the people met, but in the long term the lapse of memory overrides the memory and painting wins:
it only remains
De Sargent, vous y verrez, entre autre, " Rachel" et sa mère, Madame Fiske Warren. Le visage de "Rachel" est un de mes portait favori en peinture. Je n'avais plus vu depuis des années ce tableau ...
...un modelage de 1993, à l'automne, lorsque j'avais décidé de mettre en volume toutes les oeuvres peintes de Picasso. Je me suis arrêté à ce premier essai...(Le monde de Sofi)