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GENESIS

At the beginnig, the questions are about the birth of the Universe, of the birth of man and his relation to the world ; the forces that instigate motion, harmony, existence, the mysteries of life, the laws of alterations and transformation.

The answers to these fondamental questionnings rose from religions, myth., magic, philosophy, morality, customs, regulations and law.

The essential question is creation in its triple dimension : biological (animal and plant life), cosmic and anthropological (physical and psychological.

Myartwork helps me to freeze what is running through my mind, the dreams that haunt my soul and the ideas that obsess my brain.

Will is the tool to the process and life is the material. My aim is to get to my own individuality. I think that will can also make me to get my life structured.

I am deeply convinced that the beginning of any artwork is pain, a kind of strong vital experiment, a conflict. To face the problem and to give shape to expression is the only reason to action. The first thing to do is to put aside the culturel inheritance. Only daily experiment and permanent consciousness give birth to creation and it occurs sometimes at the most unexpected moments. To me it is the only way to give a commun basis to shape and content. I have to create it all, I must get drowned into the unknown and be ready to jump into emptiness.

Gradually the artwork grows Inside me. I bear it everyday. I get used to thinking and to reacting by pictures, almost unconsciously. I discover the way while I head on. To me painting is a way to think over life. Action is more in thinking than in observing. Painting is willing to see reality, to discover it and to make it understood. From the conflict of will and material, tensions arise that create balance. My artwork is the truth I experiment and helps my sensitivity to grow.

PROCESS

In my pictural universe « The first man » is the main character. He might be thought of as Nietzsche’s Zarathoustra. The new metaphysician has really got the sense of the earth. He runs after the ascetic ideal. He hates those who refuse tragical thinking and have sooner to delude people with sweet and dangerous hopes. He loves neither Gods nor masters. He only believes in energy, force, power, the contrary of violence. I have been obsessed with him because such a virility has been lacking these days.

FINALITY

My artwork does not end with itself. It is not the sum of frozen truths, in a limited time. I want it to be a part of my life. My artwork will go on as long as its own growing will offer different lights. Each painting is an end and a beginning, contrasting, altering, complementing one another. My artwork is not based on expressivity. It is based on word as a conveyer for ideas to be discovered. It is based on picture as a necessary result of my work and not as an end.

Texts, paintings, drawings get their meaning as a whole.

This is my message and I wish it can be universal.

Ray Monde

Paris  1995

 

Work around the body 1995 - 2000
Red feet and wings - 150 x 150 cm
Red feet and wings - 150 x 150 cm
Untitled - 30 x 150 cm
Untitled - 30 x 150 cm
Untitled - 110 x 90 cm
Untitled - 110 x 90 cm
Untitled - 110 x 90 cm
Untitled - 110 x 90 cm
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm - 1997
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm - 1997
Untitled - 100 x 80 cm - 2002
Untitled - 100 x 80 cm - 2002
Forest Love - 100 x 100 cm
Forest Love - 100 x 100 cm
Untitled - 115 x 70 cm
Untitled - 115 x 70 cm
Blue dyptique - 2 x 200 x 80 cm - 2000
Blue dyptique - 2 x 200 x 80 cm - 2000
Blue feet - 200 x 200 cm - 1999
Blue feet - 200 x 200 cm - 1999
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm - 1997
Blue man - 165 x 130 cm - 1997
Blue man - 200 x 200 cm - 1999
Blue man - 200 x 200 cm - 1999
Untitled
Untitled
Golden feet - 180 x 180 cm - 2007
Golden feet - 180 x 180 cm - 2007
Man and red canvas - 150 x 150 cm - 1999
Man and red canvas - 150 x 150 cm - 1999
Pigments on canvas - 150 x 200 cm - 1998
Pigments on canvas - 150 x 200 cm - 1998
Man on red canvas - 100 x 130 cm - 1997
Man on red canvas - 100 x 130 cm - 1997
Man series green - 130 x 130 cm
Man series green - 130 x 130 cm
Face to face - 80 x 200 cm
Face to face - 80 x 200 cm
Axis Mundis 2007
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 100 x 130 cm
Axis mundis - 200 x 150 cm - 2006
Axis mundis - 200 x 150 cm - 2006
Untitled - 200 x 200 cm - 2007
Untitled - 200 x 200 cm - 2007
Axis mundis - 200 x 150 cm - 2007
Axis mundis - 200 x 150 cm - 2007
Photographies
Wallpaper - 2003
Wallpaper - 2003
Untitled - 200 x 200 cm - 2005
Untitled - 200 x 200 cm - 2005
Flight called you and me
Flight called you and me
Horse 1
Horse 1
Flower - 2002
Flower - 2002
Horse 2
Horse 2
Kiss - 350 x 150 cm - 2004
Kiss - 350 x 150 cm - 2004
NY Doll - 115 x 115 cm - 2001
NY Doll - 115 x 115 cm - 2001
Portrait with the tiger - 130 x 200 cm - 2006
Portrait with the tiger - 130 x 200 cm - 2006
Post card - 2000
Post card - 2000
Ray Monde - 200 x 200 cm - 2007
Ray Monde - 200 x 200 cm - 2007
Sainte Catherine et Jeanne D'Arc
Sainte Catherine et Jeanne D'Arc
Silence light box - 115 x 115 cm
Silence light box - 115 x 115 cm
Soul - 2004
Soul - 2004
The beach bag - 2007
The beach bag - 2007
Tiger - 200 x 120 cm - 2005
Tiger - 200 x 120 cm - 2005
Tree - 2005
Tree - 2005
ecce femina 2003
Carpet - 350 x 350 cm - Tokyo - 2005
Carpet - 350 x 350 cm - Tokyo - 2005
Carpet Ecce Femina - 250 x 170 cm
Carpet Ecce Femina - 250 x 170 cm
Carpet - 350 x 350 cm - 2005 - Tokyo
Carpet - 350 x 350 cm - 2005 - Tokyo
Ecce Femina cut out
Ecce Femina cut out
Ecce Femina
Ecce Femina
Ecce Femina
Ecce Femina
Light columns
Light columns
Light columns Paris Studio - 2003
Light columns Paris Studio - 2003
BB BOUDDHA
Article "bas les masques"
Article "bas les masques"
BB Bouddha made of bronze - 2009
BB Bouddha made of bronze - 2009
BB Bouddha
BB Bouddha
BB Bouddha painting on canvas - 100 x 100 cm - 2008
BB Bouddha painting on canvas - 100 x 100 cm - 2008
BB Bouddha
BB Bouddha
Book BB Bouddha
Book BB Bouddha
Cover video BB Bouddha
Cover video BB Bouddha
Exhibition Janus Gallery - 2015
Exhibition Janus Gallery - 2015
Final Ray
Final Ray
Gallery Janus - 2015
Gallery Janus - 2015
Installation with BB Bouddha
Installation with BB Bouddha
Limited edition BB Bouddha resin and aluminium - 2015
Limited edition BB Bouddha resin and aluminium - 2015
Limited series - 15 pieces - 2015
Limited series - 15 pieces - 2015
Poster Caress to Bouddha international short film festival - Paris - 2008
Poster Caress to Bouddha international short film festival - Paris - 2008
Resin BB Bouddha
Resin BB Bouddha
performance in and outside 2005-2009
Performance - Outside painting - Bastia - Corsica
Performance - Outside painting - Bastia - Corsica
Performance - Studio Paris - 2003
Performance - Studio Paris - 2003
Performance - Studio Paris - 2004
Performance - Studio Paris - 2004
Performance - Studio Paris - 2007
Performance - Studio Paris - 2007
Performance - Studio Paris - 2004
Performance - Studio Paris - 2004
Performance - U Casale Santa Catalina - 2007
Performance - U Casale Santa Catalina - 2007
Ray Monde - Performance Studio Paris - 2007
Ray Monde - Performance Studio Paris - 2007
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Je veux un passeport Suisse - Performance - 2010
Outside painting - Bastia - 2007
Outside painting - Bastia - 2007
Outside painting - Corsica - 2009
Outside painting - Corsica - 2009
Performance - Bastia - 2007
Performance - Bastia - 2007
Portraits
Portrait - 130 x 100 cm - 1999
Portrait - 130 x 100 cm - 1999
Portrait - 130 x 100 cm - 1999
Portrait - 130 x 100 cm - 1999
Friedrich Nietzsche - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Friedrich Nietzsche - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Gustave Courbet - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Gustave Courbet - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Jeanne D'Arc - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Jeanne D'Arc - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Lucile
Lucile
Mango - 145 x 115 cm - Pigments sur toile - 2011
Mango - 145 x 115 cm - Pigments sur toile - 2011
Antonin Artaud - Passion de Jeanne D'Arc
Antonin Artaud - Passion de Jeanne D'Arc
Raymond Hains - 80 x 100 cm
Raymond Hains - 80 x 100 cm
Samuel Becket - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Samuel Becket - 80 x 100 cm - 2011
Self portrait - 100 x 130 cm
Self portrait - 100 x 130 cm
Self portrait in red - 100 x 130 cm - 2003
Self portrait in red - 100 x 130 cm - 2003
Self portraits - Studio Paris - 2006
Self portraits - Studio Paris - 2006
Tien Xia
Tien Xia
Tsunami - 145 x 115 cm - Pigments sur toile - 2011
Tsunami - 145 x 115 cm - Pigments sur toile - 2011
Louise Bourgeois - 2011
Louise Bourgeois - 2011
Virginia Woolf - 80 x 100 cm - Pigments on canvas - 2011
Virginia Woolf - 80 x 100 cm - Pigments on canvas - 2011
Previous series to Caress the World 2011-2013
Text - Accrochage - Switzerland
Text - Accrochage - Switzerland
Good bye to the Children - 2012
Good bye to the Children - 2012
Hand cuts - 2011
Hand cuts - 2011
Hand cuts - 2012
Hand cuts - 2012
Hand cuts in paper - 2012
Hand cuts in paper - 2012
Hand cuts in paper inside studio - 2013
Hand cuts in paper inside studio - 2013
Hand cuts in paper
Hand cuts in paper
Studio - 2012
Studio - 2012
Studio - Hand cuts in paper - 2013
Studio - Hand cuts in paper - 2013
Untitled - 2012
Untitled - 2012
Untitled - 2013
Untitled - 2013