Feuille blanche n°11 (faux)

Wrong? Not at all, although the artist's work is intriguing and compels the viewer to reason in order to decipher its meaning. Consisting of a piece of wood covered with white paint and straight pencil lines, it is reminiscent of Kasimir Malevich's White Monochrome and White Square on White Background (1918). By extension, it could also evoke the research into emptiness and white space carried out in the second half of the twentieth century by artists such as Yves Klein and Laurie Parsons. Nevertheless, the presence of these lines drawn with a ruler seems to invalidate the ideas of monochrome and emptiness. On further reflection, the work could evoke the "blank page syndrome" feared by artists, a desire to confront natural matter with the artifice of straight lines and white, or a tribute to the Les feuilles exhibition in which he participated at the Palais de Tokyo in 2009. However, given his research into matter and concept, it would seem that this work's sole vocation is to provoke reflection, or even to kill boredom, not without a certain cynicism, as its title demonstrates.