Max-Daniel - Le Bon Samaritain

Max-Daniel

The Good Samaritan

Mixed media on canvas, 50 x 75 cm, unique and original work certified: AI, digital processing, pigment print on canvas and oil painting by glazes, venetian glazes and highlights

This work reactivates a major theme of Western iconography, that of the Good Samaritan, using contemporary means and in a resolutely postmodern sensibility. Far from a simple quotation, Max-Daniel here undertakes a true pictorial reworking: the piece results from a complex elaboration combining AI, digital processing, pigment printing on canvas, followed by oil intervention with glazes, venetian glazes and highlights.

The result fully embraces this hybridity. The surface reveals both the memory of its different technical states and the presence of the painted work. Some areas retain the sharpness or the finish of the print, while others are displaced, deepened, warmed or unsettled by the oil retouches. It is precisely in this tension between contemporary procedure and ancient craft that the work finds its singularity.

The subject of the Good Samaritan here regains a new force. In a world marked by violence, abandonment, war and indifference, this old scene of aid, human responsibility and compassion becomes strikingly relevant again. The biblical theme is not treated as a devotional or illustrative image, but as a universal figure of help extended to others, to the wounded, to the abandoned. This reactivation of the old motif resonates with the present, without didactic discourse, through the intensity of the scene alone.

Since 1989, Max-Daniel has pursued ongoing research into hybrid works, mixing contemporary technologies with traditional techniques. Doctor in Arts and Sciences of Art from the Sorbonne, he participated in the research of the programmed art laboratory at the Centre Saint-Charles and has presented his work in several exhibitions in Paris and elsewhere, notably at the Cité des sciences, at Galerie Egner, at Galerie IESA and in other contexts, including Futuroscope. Alongside his teaching activity and professorship, he has maintained an independent practice exploring possible continuities between several centuries of technique.

This work combines techniques from different eras: AI, digital processing, pigment printing on canvas and oil painting by glazes, venetian glazes and highlights, in a technical perspective open to several centuries of history.

Certificate of authenticity on paper signed as original and unique provided with the artwork

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