Tristan Mottier - Le silence blanc

The White Silence

Format: 60 × 40 cm
Limited edition: 30 copies
Displayed copy: 3/30
Number: 129082
Artwork signed by the hand of the artist
Packaging: careful tubing
Delivery: fast and protected

Description of the work:

The White Silence represents a solitary polar bear, immobile on icy ground, facing the immensity.
Nothing moves. Nothing screams. Everything is there.

The animal does not dominate the landscape; it is part of it.
It does not advance, it does not attack, it observes.
In this world of cold and silence, every step counts, every breath is measured.

This work speaks of restraint, of patience and the essential.
It evokes a force that does not need to express itself to exist, a calm, sovereign, almost spiritual presence.

White is not emptiness: it is a response.
A response to agitation, to noise, to excess.

Words from the artist:

I have always been drawn to places where almost nothing remains.

The North, the cold, the silent lands have taught me one simple thing: when you remove the superfluous, what remains is the essential.

This bear is not alone; he is whole.
He expects nothing, he asks for nothing.
He is there, and that is enough.

The White Silence is this inner space that one reaches when one stops running, when one agrees to live with little, but true.

Before the noise. Before man. Before too much.