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Statement
As a person I am very sensitive to my environment. When I say environment I am encompassing everything such as: landscape, organization of the urban spaces, size of the city, architecture of buildings, fluidity of traffic, relationship between people in terms of kindness, selfishness, and so on. As an artist I feel a heightened sensitivity and I know that my overall mood and mental health will depend on these environmental conditions. Like Cy Twombly, when I make a piece of art I strive to conjure moments of genesis and creative hedonism that exist before ideas attain full expression as conventional images or language. I want very much for my work to take advantage of the instinctual impulses that lie beneath rational thought. However, because my genuine gestures need to be fed with meanings, my philosophical vision of the world helps me to better understand human nature and thus become more tolerant within myself. When I heard Gilles Deleuze state in an interview given in 1988, “If one is not ashamed to be a human being, then he doesn’t make art”, I understood better why it was so difficult for me to find the boundaries between my idealistic visions of human presence on this earth and the reality of our everyday life |
Bio
French-born Olivier Dubois-Cherrier is a visual artist who expresses himself through Land art, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. These last 20 years he has lived in diverse countries with a coastline, such as Guadeloupe (FWI), Barcelona (Spain), Dominican Republic, and Miami. He now lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, a desert place where water is rare. A counter-place could be said at first sight; but for the nomadic Caribbean crossed origins artist who learned how to place his roots in himself, settling his home in a wide and empty landscape was a necessity. He likes to think about the notion of the island in term of geopolitical space and of philosophic and psychological state. The natural limits of the island such as banks, horizons, oppositions and demarcations became for this artist metaphors of the incapacity for the modern man to live harmoniously
French-born Olivier Dubois-Cherrier is a visual artist who expresses himself through Land art, painting, sculpture, photography and poetry. These last 20 years he has lived in diverse countries with a coastline, such as Guadeloupe (FWI), Barcelona (Spain), Dominican Republic, and Miami. He now lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, a desert place where water is rare. A counter-place could be said at first sight; but for the nomadic Caribbean crossed origins artist who learned how to place his roots in himself, settling his home in a wide and empty landscape was a necessity. He likes to think about the notion of the island in term of geopolitical space and of philosophic and psychological state. The natural limits of the island such as banks, horizons, oppositions and demarcations became for this artist metaphors of the incapacity for the modern man to live harmoniously
