Jules Atarax (1985) - The Horizon
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Jules Atarax, The Horizon, mixed media on canvas using oil and acrylic, 40 × 30 cm, unique original work signed by the artist, dating from 2010–2020, Belgium, sold with frame, in excellent condition.
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The Horizon evokes that suspended moment when the gaze turns toward what is not yet visible. A solitary figure, seated on a simple geometric volume, contemplates a vast space whose immensity becomes the true subject of the work.
The deep blue occupies the majority of the composition and acts as a metaphor for infinity. It represents not just a sky or a sea, but an inner territory where time seems to slow down. Facing this immensity, the silhouette appears at once fragile and determined.
Through a deliberately pared-down pictorial language, Jules Atarax reduces the figure to the essentials. Details disappear in favor of posture, light, and silence. Yellow accents bring a discreet vibration, like a promise in the middle of the vastness.
The work invites reflection on the moments when existence tips: when one contemplates an uncertain future, hesitates between staying and leaving, or discovers, far away, a new direction.
Between contemporary minimalism and poetic expressionism, The Horizon leaves ample room for interpretation. It is not the landscape that matters, but the gaze cast upon it.
This work is among the very latest canvases currently available by Jules Atarax, as the artist’s entire recent body of work has already been acquired; this rare availability offers collectors a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a stage when available production is extremely limited.
A rare opportunity before the complete disappearance of this series from the market.
His works are in private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Format: 40 x 30 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic painting on canvas
Unique piece
Seller's Story
We believe that art is not an image.
There is a presence.
A work exists when a human being inhabits matter. When a glance, a hand, hesitation, or intention cross the color. Painting is not a surface to fill, but a place where something alive takes shape.
We refuse non-being.
We reject images without flesh, forms without experience, productions that imitate without feeling. A creation can be technically perfect and yet empty. Perfection without presence is an absence.
What we fight against is not technology.
It is the disappearance of the sensitive.
We defend slowness, doubt, and trace.
The hand that trembles.
The color that lasts.
The gesture that fails then starts again.
It is in this friction between spirit and matter that art is born. Where something is risky. Where something is true.
Painting is an act of resistance.
Resistance to the automation of perception.
Resistance to the uniformity of beauty.
Resistance to forgetting what it means to feel.
Creating is asserting one's existence.
We believe that human feelings are not simulated.
They feel for each other.
They are registering.
They leave a mark
A work bears the weight of those who have traversed it. It contains time, attention, fatigue, joy, and sometimes pain. That is what we seek. That is what we want to convey.
Faced with purely artificial creations, we choose incarnation.
Faced with noise, we choose depth.
Facing speed, we choose accuracy.
As long as there is color, there will be humanity.
This manifesto is not nostalgia.
It's a line.
A line between the image and the work.
Between calculation and presence.
Between the simulated and the lived experience.
We do not make images.
We make human existence exist through color.
And as long as a human hand inhabits matter, art will remain alive.
Translated by Google TranslateThe Horizon evokes that suspended moment when the gaze turns toward what is not yet visible. A solitary figure, seated on a simple geometric volume, contemplates a vast space whose immensity becomes the true subject of the work.
The deep blue occupies the majority of the composition and acts as a metaphor for infinity. It represents not just a sky or a sea, but an inner territory where time seems to slow down. Facing this immensity, the silhouette appears at once fragile and determined.
Through a deliberately pared-down pictorial language, Jules Atarax reduces the figure to the essentials. Details disappear in favor of posture, light, and silence. Yellow accents bring a discreet vibration, like a promise in the middle of the vastness.
The work invites reflection on the moments when existence tips: when one contemplates an uncertain future, hesitates between staying and leaving, or discovers, far away, a new direction.
Between contemporary minimalism and poetic expressionism, The Horizon leaves ample room for interpretation. It is not the landscape that matters, but the gaze cast upon it.
This work is among the very latest canvases currently available by Jules Atarax, as the artist’s entire recent body of work has already been acquired; this rare availability offers collectors a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work at a stage when available production is extremely limited.
A rare opportunity before the complete disappearance of this series from the market.
His works are in private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy.
We offer on Catawiki the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Format: 40 x 30 cm
Technique: oil and acrylic painting on canvas
Unique piece
Seller's Story
We believe that art is not an image.
There is a presence.
A work exists when a human being inhabits matter. When a glance, a hand, hesitation, or intention cross the color. Painting is not a surface to fill, but a place where something alive takes shape.
We refuse non-being.
We reject images without flesh, forms without experience, productions that imitate without feeling. A creation can be technically perfect and yet empty. Perfection without presence is an absence.
What we fight against is not technology.
It is the disappearance of the sensitive.
We defend slowness, doubt, and trace.
The hand that trembles.
The color that lasts.
The gesture that fails then starts again.
It is in this friction between spirit and matter that art is born. Where something is risky. Where something is true.
Painting is an act of resistance.
Resistance to the automation of perception.
Resistance to the uniformity of beauty.
Resistance to forgetting what it means to feel.
Creating is asserting one's existence.
We believe that human feelings are not simulated.
They feel for each other.
They are registering.
They leave a mark
A work bears the weight of those who have traversed it. It contains time, attention, fatigue, joy, and sometimes pain. That is what we seek. That is what we want to convey.
Faced with purely artificial creations, we choose incarnation.
Faced with noise, we choose depth.
Facing speed, we choose accuracy.
As long as there is color, there will be humanity.
This manifesto is not nostalgia.
It's a line.
A line between the image and the work.
Between calculation and presence.
Between the simulated and the lived experience.
We do not make images.
We make human existence exist through color.
And as long as a human hand inhabits matter, art will remain alive.
Translated by Google TranslateDetails
Artist
Jules Atarax (1985)
Sold with frame
Yes
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
The Horizon
Technique
Acrylic painting, Mixed media, Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
40 cm
Width
30 cm
Style
Expressionism
Period
2010-2020
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