Eric Pasture Belgian, b. 1958

• In Eric Pasture's approach to materialist abstraction, his physical taste, almost artisanal for a material, is measured, a smooth paste spread, combed, smoothed, made silky like a tunic, or crushed, channeled, spread by the spatula which constrains it, bringing it back in flat areas, giving way to wet lips or delicate hems. Red, the color of fire and blood, however, has the same symbolic ambivalence as the latter, no doubt, visually speaking, depending on whether it is bright or dark. With this one major color, rich in all the others, the artist leads and tells his world, made up of momentum and restraint, shadows and clarity, impulses and rest. When the external light is flush with these fields of painting, it diffuses into infinite shades that never tire of our gaze.

 

• Eric Pasture's canvases provide us with some answers to this nagging question which remains as open as that of humanity: how to capture the colors of the world in a universal construction? In appearance, the real is full of colors, but the colors, in reality, do not exist. The ones we see depend on the light that the outside world directs towards our eyes, but the ideas of "red" are born only in the depths of our brain. The colors are therefore not only the "exploits of light" as Goethe said: They are also the exploits of me. We use ourselves to adorn the world and we do it for us.

 

• Refusing to limit his art to a single medium, Eric Pasture explores drawing, painting, calligraphy, watercolor, or even writing in all its forms: Ethiopian, runes, Arab-Malagasy, Burmese, Tibetan, Kanada... He advocates experimentation, a decisive exchange for the discovery of new expressions. Eric Pasture re-examines the traces of a language and lets the unknown emerge at the bend of his expression suitable for exploring signs and forms. The ink is mixed in multiple materials and the compositions are enriched like "color field painting". We find these characters in an exuberant swarm of abstract forms in gestation, a resurgence of the artist's desire to highlight the noble and popular references of cultural diversity at the service of his personality, his singularity.