Friday 19 june 2009
Each on his own
Acrylic on canvas - 52" x 43"

Once spent the childhood, we need to become identified with regard to the others and the individuality is then involved with the group. The group is for the future adult a means to compare and to look like the other members of the group, what provokes a psychological protection and looks a sense in the daily actions.
The human being is thus confronted with the group, it is up to the chosen community, and he shares the codes and the rites while preserving his individuality.
The movements, the conscious thoughts and the unconscious dreams feed by the community remain all the same the full property of the individual.
Role-playing games, efforts of integration, the energy spent to defend the ego create waves and convolutions which when they are got by the sensibility of the artist form colourful arabesques.

By Olivier D - Community: Contemporary art
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Monday 8 june 2009
Distances
Acrylic on canvas - 62" x 52"

Since the beginning of my study on "Rejected by the sea ", I replaced as a teenager, or a young adult who has to leave the careless world of the childhood to cast himself into the grown-up life. It is all this transition which fascinates me and which I sound here.

With "Distances", I bend over the evolution of the human relations with the growth. Child, we are authorized to be on first-name terms to see everybody even to play up, while by becoming a young adult we have to learn the use of the using the 'vous' form (especially to us French) and there even the respect.

When are we intimate? When can we touch the other one? To where let us can go to us?
The palette of the distances between our own person and the other individuals grows rich, but is also source of misunderstandings. It arrives at us still sometimes to the adulthood, is not it?
By Olivier D - Community: Contemporary art
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Thursday 28 may 2009
"Métisse (face & dos)"
acrylic on canvas 48" x 104"


At its conception, the child is physically linked to his mother. When it comes to the world, it is separated from her and then the two players try to compensate this gap by a fusional relationship.

A few months later, and this for years, the father figure is to ensure the separation of child and mother despite a refusal to obey the two concerned. He plays the role of third separator.
In some cases, the father is absent. Actually or psychologically, then the mother has any power over the child and this in the name of motherly love. Unfortunately, this mainly for boys, too much this merger may make injuries more or less serious consequences for the psychological balance of the boy. As Freud said, children are very sexual and his early attempts to imitate his father to seduce her mother there for everyone. But when the father is not there, or if it is left out, the risk of incestuous relationship, even if it is only psychological plonge the child or adolescent in a deep anxiety just palpable and certainly not visible to those involved.
As written by Boris Cyrulnick, facing the fear of incest, the child does not have many options: homosexuality, self or flee.

Without in exhibitionism, my mother is mixed, my father was absent, but fortunately for me my little brother played at his expense as a third separator.
"Métisse*" talks about that.

* Half-bleed
By Olivier D - Community: Contemporary art
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Tuesday 5 may 2009
"Venus"
Acrylic on canvas 47"x47"

As the famous psychologist Freud said, childhood is sexually oriented. Unconsciently when the human is still a child, part of his emotions are manipulated by sex attractions. As child is becoming a teenager he has, later on, the opportunity to experiment the different situations that his body, and his friends’ bodies, offer to him. With this painting I am trying to go very near the subject, and feel the energy created by that sexual attraction. Energy we have to contain, later on, as we are becoming older and as we deeply want to be part of the social environment.
By Olivier D - Community: Contemporary art
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Sunday 5 april 2009
"Lost vibrations"
Acrylic on canvas 52x43"


After all that time spent in Barcelona (5 years), I wanted to go back to my roots. It is for that reason I had to go back living in the Caribbean islands (My mother was born in Martinique). Before Barcelona I lived in Guadeloupe for 8 years and 3 years in Dominican Republic.

It is in that latest country I wanted to come back and since past summer I enjoy really my new environment.
That change wasn’t enough for me so I took the decision to dedicate more time of my life to art. Since I arrived to Santo Domingo I spent most of my time to my passion: painting.

My roots, my youth, my psychological development and all the time passed by the sea have contributed to the “rejected by the sea” project’s birth.
With my painting work I am exploring the conscience of my human nature.
I use an abstractive figuration to treat about personal and difficult subjects. The symbol of being “Rejected by the sea” will make me go into a deep way where may surge unexpected things.

The painting, shown here, is talking about emotions and childhood dreams we have to give up to satisfy our parents’ hopes.
By Olivier D
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