CHRISTOPHE STIBIO: DAYS WILL BE DAYS, NIGHTS WILL BE NIGHTS, UNTIL...

With this new body of work Christophe Stibio invites us into an immersive panorama. The Australian landscape - ever present - forms a fundamental starting point. Stibio’s answer to the landscape stems from profound observation, which results in an intimate interpretation where intuition and the cognitive meet. Country as a living entity is what the artworks endeavour to capture, to translate and to communicate.

Working on composition, as writing, is a continual process. Structuring space in accordance to the primal image felt original by Stibio, develops into what could be called a personal calligraphy of the landscape. Entire segments or even just a line is sometimes left unfinished, setting off the possibility to complete in the mind’s eye what has been left incomplete. The perception of the subject matter is deliberately and continually questioned. This forces viewers into a calligraphy of the landscape in their own minds. Optically destabilising effects, compel the viewer to have a different perception of the land. One that is ultimately intimately intuitive.

The landscape is not a European sensitivity.This landscape breathes and pulsates. So does both the maker and the viewer of the pictures. All belong to the same source.

- Georges Petitjean, Art Historian and Senior Curator - Fondation Opale, Switzerland, 2024

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