For Malevich: the dormitions | Marc-Antoine Decavèle

The ‘Pour Malévitch’ series began in 2017 and aims to combine abstraction, the figure, the icon and the image in a single gesture. His painting is so fragile that it demands to be seen. The material is not there to produce the precision of a particular state, but to produce the indeterminacy of a state. In this way, his work attempts to combine matter and acuity, to bring together the intelligent and the sensitive. We find ourselves at the heart of the visible, somewhere between clarifying and slipping.

In this 3rd series, the idea is to move pictoriality towards a dialogue with Byzantine art and Russian icons, and more particularly their dormitions where the horizontality of death and the mandorla are linked. We want to move away from the notion of the image and give greater expression to that of the icon, in other words, emphasise presence, revelation and transformation.