Rue du Cauchemar

This work stems from a small accident: initially, my idea was to prepare a black background to make an Intra-Materia work on it, once the black background would be dry.

But just as I had primed the canvas with an even, well-smoothed coat of intense black, and grabbed hold of it to bring it outside to dry in the sun, my right hand entered in contact with the layer of fresh black paint, and having removed part of it, lets the white of the canvas reappear.

The drawings that were thus accidentally created seemed so interesting to me, that I changed my mind, and decided to intentionally create such drawings on the entire surface of the canvas, while the black was still fresh.

After a few weeks of drying, I repainted the whole canvas, respecting the contours of the accidental drawings, and bringing different colors to create different planes and an effect of depth, different objects, and finally an "comprehensible" ensemble.

I called this technique "l'Oeuvre au Noir", and this work "Rue du Cauchemar"/"Nightmare Street".