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Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light
Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light

Andriu Deplazes – Bodies in Scattered Light

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I asked Andriu Deplazes if he had always wished to be a painter. No, he said. For a time, he had trained to be a classical musician, but turned away from music because there was something repellent about the need to demonstrate virtuosity. To be a virtuoso, as the moral world depicted in these paintings clearly shows, is not the same as having virtue. And yet, at the same time, there are still traces of virtuosity in Deplazes’ practice: in the idealised landscapes that he renders, and in the easy depiction of animal life. It is only humans that he will not denigrate with such perfection. Their overpainted faces do not allow them to be captured as things, but rather present them as subjects. They elude categorisation because they are responding, in real time, to what they see in us. – Adam Jasper.

36 pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, softcover, Nieves (Zurich).