Christophe CORREIA, Artist

Since the dawn of time, humankind has traced signs. In the Chauvet Cave, more than thirty thousand years ago, a hand pressed itself against the wall to leave a pigment imprint. Was it a ritual gesture, a mark of possession, an attempt to depict the animal world that surrounded it? We will never know, but one thing is certain: already there was the desire to express. That first gesture, fragile and monumental at once, tells us that art begins where humanity seeks to make visible what it feels. For a long time, art was considered an imitation of reality. To carve a Greek god in marble, to paint the light of a Tuscan landscape—this was to copy the world in order to grasp its essence. Yet modernity revealed that art was far more than faithful representation. Kandinsky painted abstract canvases to give form to the music he heard, Pollock flung paint onto canvas to inscribe his own gesture, Yves Klein

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