Jules Atarax (1985) - The Last Face
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The Last Face is an original, signed oil, acrylic and spray painting on canvas by Jules Atarax (born 1985), 50 × 60 cm, created in 2021, in the expressionist style, from Belgium, in excellent condition.
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With The Last Face, Jules Atarax explores the moving boundary between figuration and abstraction. A face seems to emerge from the material before dissolving almost immediately.
The composition is built through a succession of broad and spontaneous gestures. The acid greens structure what could be a gaze, while the blues, blacks and greys form around the figure a dense and unstable space. A few red interventions come to break this cold dominance and introduce a particularly strong tension in the lower part of the work.
The face is never truly described. It is constructed in the eye of the viewer from traces, overlays and accidents of paint. From a distance, a human presence imposes itself; as you approach, this presence fragments and reveals the materiality of the canvas and the energy of the gesture.
The combined use of oil, acrylic and spray allows confronting different qualities of matter: density, transparency, opacity and more immediate interventions. The traces of the process remain deliberately visible and become an integral part of the image.
The Last Face is thus less a portrait in the traditional sense than an inquiry into our need to recognize a face in chaos. Between appearance and erasure, order and disorder, the painting deliberately preserves a degree of indeterminacy and invites each viewer to construct their own reading.
This work counts among the latest canvases currently available by Jules Atarax, while all of the artist's recent pieces have already been sold, this rare availability offers the collector a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work in a phase where the available production becomes 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, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Italy.
On Catawiki we offer the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Characteristics of the work
Title: The Last Face
Artist: Jules Atarax
Technique: oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 60 cm
Original and unique work
Signed by the artist
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 TranslateWith The Last Face, Jules Atarax explores the moving boundary between figuration and abstraction. A face seems to emerge from the material before dissolving almost immediately.
The composition is built through a succession of broad and spontaneous gestures. The acid greens structure what could be a gaze, while the blues, blacks and greys form around the figure a dense and unstable space. A few red interventions come to break this cold dominance and introduce a particularly strong tension in the lower part of the work.
The face is never truly described. It is constructed in the eye of the viewer from traces, overlays and accidents of paint. From a distance, a human presence imposes itself; as you approach, this presence fragments and reveals the materiality of the canvas and the energy of the gesture.
The combined use of oil, acrylic and spray allows confronting different qualities of matter: density, transparency, opacity and more immediate interventions. The traces of the process remain deliberately visible and become an integral part of the image.
The Last Face is thus less a portrait in the traditional sense than an inquiry into our need to recognize a face in chaos. Between appearance and erasure, order and disorder, the painting deliberately preserves a degree of indeterminacy and invites each viewer to construct their own reading.
This work counts among the latest canvases currently available by Jules Atarax, while all of the artist's recent pieces have already been sold, this rare availability offers the collector a privileged opportunity to acquire an original work in a phase where the available production becomes 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, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Italy.
On Catawiki we offer the latest pieces available from this period 2019-2024.
Characteristics of the work
Title: The Last Face
Artist: Jules Atarax
Technique: oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 60 cm
Original and unique work
Signed by the artist
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.
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Artist
Jules Atarax (1985)
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
The Last Face
Technique
Acrylic painting, Oil painting, Spray paint
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
2021
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
60 cm
Width
50 cm
Depiction/theme
Pop Culture
Style
Expressionism
Period
2020+
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