Each work offers another glimpse into his very personal world, where readymades confront photographic images, where each of the artist’s points of view on the object produces a unique swing from simple materiality to the magic of the object thus displaced. As the viewer looks at the work Vinci—a simple doormat transposed to the wall and encased in a metal frame— it becomes a constellation, an unknown territory in which the eye loses itself. Skip, a simple cardboard detergent box discoloured by the sun and placed on the ground, offers an almost unreal image, an unfamiliar materiality, like a photographic negative of time’s imprint on the object. The artist moves viewers through the exhibition as if they were the lens of an imaginary camera trying several times to focus, searching the prism of Cubikron 2, a honeycombed plastic cube with truncated corners, or searching the golden volume of the glued posters of Concave, to find the logic behind the visual mystery at work before them.

Although the shapes may remain enigmatic to those observing them, they still also remain simple objects taking on an almost scientific character as they present the eye with unknown territories, such as Scotch, a scanner photo of a roll of adhesive tape, or Safe Cover, a safety cover coloured by the artist and simply attached to the wall. These stem just as much from that displacement which is part of the unreality in which Eric Baudart installs his work. A reality in which the simplest meets the most complex, in which the real becomes an image, like an artefact, but of a quite existent reality. Like the blue-painted gallery floor on which the artist has placed his exhibition, or the light of a single LED inserted in a gallery wall, everything contributes to this loss of bearings, a feeling of infinity. The objectivity of sight has lost its foundations, jeopardised by a “fictional” virtuality installed by the artist, like a permanent entry into the virtual age.

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My work reflects emotion and passion for life and for different cultures. I was born in Paris grew up between Munich and the south of France. I now live in Luxembourg and I’m fascinated by New York and Singapore.

My Italian heritage loves to express itself with a balance between the effect of strong painting knife work and a varying mix of techniques. This reflects all the different impressions I have crossed during my life. I love to create my own world on the canvas with warm and contrasting colors, where every dream could happen … and I love to share it with others!

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I am a painter and a gallery owner. I used to live in Paris, but now I have a gallery in Denmark. My works have a poetic beauty, sensitivity, imagination, spirituality, and energy. I am one of a kind, my paintings are very much in movement, but also contain soft but powerful lines that meet in great harmony. My colors are very unique, the effect is very original, whether I paint on canvas, or on paper (mixed techniques, pastels, watercolor, gouache, metals and ink.) My art is visionary and reveals many surprises the more you look at it.

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