In the heart of jazz, the energy of the hot and coloured songs, the jerky rhythms of a warm, seducing and appealing music, have invaded the canvases, inspired by the scores of the great musicians like Fats Waller, Albert Ammons, Lionel Hampton, Sidney Bechet. Entitled Les Rues d’Antibes, On a Sentimental Mood, On the Sunny Side of the Street or Le pianiste, Deux musicians, Trois Musiciens, Les Souffleurs, the paintings tempt to translate the cadence of the musical sequences, balancing, swinging and giving the tempo of the slow blues, the hot boogie woogies, a music that has inspired many generations of artists and not the least ones since among them, the famous Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, used to paint in his New York studio, listening jazz music.
Other canvases choose to escape through numerous periplus, going over the seas and the continents, researching boundless spaces. They have plunged their roots into the discovery of other perspectives, other ways of living and thinking, in order to meet with the vast horizons, like Entre Mer et Ciel, the Vents du large blowing on the distant continents, smoothly lulled by the oceans and the sounds of the ebb and flow of the water. In the Tropicals, the trade-winds are gently caressing the atolls, or are full of a vitalizing energy, in the liking of privileged, fragile, furtive instants, to the confines of coloured hopes.
Dr.Danielle Junod-Sugnaux
