CÉDRIC BOUTEILLER
The man sees his work as an acquisitive action, a fusion of techniques that oscillate between modern photographic shooting, contemporary painting, graffiti, digital retouching or collage. Antiquing is also an essential artistic activity to his action. CÉDRIC BOUTEILLER searches, recovers or tears papers and posters from the public space.
In fact, this artist is also an alchemist. Many have used alchemical thoughts to quench their thirst for gold or immortality. But others, on the other hand, have used this practice to awaken themselves. A mystical alchemy to transcend his condition, a mystical alchemy to raise his consciousness. CÉDRIC also speculates on the oxidation of matter, the hardening of a plasticizer, the evaporation of a paint... So many residues with random and uncertain renderings, which can feed his paintings: "You see, that, that interests me," he often says, pointing to a cracking varnish or an accidental degradation of acrylic.
Spend some time in CÉDRIC BOUTEILLER's studio, and let your gaze wander over the drawing tables or worktops dedicated to his epoxy polys. Everywhere, you will find paint trays, masking tapes, cans of thinners, bottles of hardener or stubborn solvents, dangerous cutter blades or elegant brushes in natural bristles... Under the effect of the ambient heat, the epoxy resins harden. Irreversibly. Also, some tools find themselves prisoners of buckets in improbable positions. Stopped dead in the momentum, the oblivion or the will of the artist. An ardent pioneer, CÉDRIC BOUTEILLER often walks the bitumen, alone, on foot or at the wheel of his car, a camera always within reach.
Ready to trigger at the slightest visual singularity that could spring from his urban environment. This watch, this gleaning of graphic resources allows him to capture at will a strange drip on a wall, a singular stain on the macadam, to pick up a piece of poster whose shape of the tear could inspire him: "The fringes, the cut of a paper can sometimes justify a good handbrake," the artist jokes. Scribbled notes, pigments by the hundreds, digital data storage cards, art books by the kilo, inked notebooks, monographs or posters of a touring circus. Between memories and tools of the future, CÉDRIC BOUTEILLER's studio is filled with objects to create. Composite, between two eras and several continents, his bric-a-brac is necessary. The accumulation helps him to raise the materials, to give birth to ideas. Here, a Chinese porcelain inkwell, there a glass cabinet full of huge markers. On the ground, small lakes and ponds left by the dry resin...
The artist's works
