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Texts on my painting

by Etienne Buraud

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Story of a seesaw

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FALLS IN THE WORK OF R. BURAUD

The 1993 shift

(Image captioned: Untitled, 180 x 200 cm, acrylic on canvas.)

Originally, there was the work on movement begun in 1986, which provided the material for the first issue of Cahiers Roland Buraud (February 2012). Dancers, carried bodies, genre scenes, Roland Buraud's painting could be described as essentially vertical until 1993. Until then, the bodies were standing, on the ground, or "freed themselves from gravity" by a mechanism specific to the human body. We do not see any falls, and when the bodies are horizontal, it is because they have a relationship with the central reservation, that they embrace each other, firstly because they still exist. The color marries, it is a painting of the living of which the triptych of 1990, entitled Le Prometheus, constitutes the acme (see CRB N°1 and the painter's website).

In 1993, the year his father died, he produced a series of 200 square-format drawings, which he exhibited in great disarray at the museum. The drawings are classified by day, and numbered. Some days contain nearly 25 drawings (see right page).

We can detect a research work on a progressive liberation from the gravity of bodies. It is a real molt that takes place before our eyes between the vertical body of the dancer with abandoned movement, and that of the recumbent figure whose one arm falls towards the ground. Thus, the series allows us to break down the avatars of this graphic transformation. From then on, we will identify Roland's painting with these suspended bodies. The dancer has transformed into a recumbent figure, gravity into weightlessness, and the bodies will evolve in a space with suspended forces of attraction, sometimes detectable, sometimes not.

Freed from all gravity, bodies can now fall.

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©2025 by Etienne Buraud

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