Towards Other Skies

  Before Thinking About Painting, As Far As Thinking About Urban Space Is Concerned, I Need To Say A Word About A Photo Taken Outside. Dubrovnik, During A Trip To Across Southern And Central Europe. This Is The Starting Point Of My Questions About About Emptiness And Urban Space. There Is Of Course The Traditional Image Of The City. Enclosed Within Its Ramparts With Its Port And Then There Is...   ...the Bull's Eye Of Dubrovnik Which Was Like A Revelation For Me. This Hole In The Wall, The End Of The Covered Street Of The City, Gave Me To See The Symbols Of Power Of This City; Out Of The Ordinary.           See Text   This Subject In "Between Writing And Painting".       It's At Through My Work As An Urban Architect That I Will Continue And Develop My Pictorial Approach And This Will Be The Occasion For An Unexpected Evolution. Writing Will Be One Of The Links That Will Trigger This Work. C&eac;zanne's Text On Voids Is Part Of This Process. It Is With The Desire To Produce A Text Accessible To Ordinary People That I Am Developing A Series Of Short Texts. And One Thing Leading To Another, A Dialogue Will Take Place Between Writing And Drawings. One Having An Influence On The Other Without Me Knowing Which One Predominates Over The Other. It Is A Global Approach.   Here, The Space Is Worked On. Overall Of The Project. It Is Not A Question Of Placing A Volume In The Middle Of A Plot Of Land But Of Responding To The Program For A Small Locality. This Is How The Idea Of Using The Space Between The Two Volumes For More Important, But Very Punctual, Activities Is Revealed. Rather Than Producing A Multi-purpose Room With All The Faults That This Entails Both From The Point Of View Of Management And The Technical Constraints Inherent To It. This Type Of Room Is Proposed Rooms That Meet Your Needs Each Program Request, On A Village Scale, But Without Abandoning The Village. More Important Possible Activities. This Is How The Idea Of This Open-air Theater That Delimits The Two Volumes Of Activities Of The Project Comes To Me. This Void Is The Heart Of The Cultural Center. The Exterior Is Actually The Interior Of The Project.   Change Of Subject And Scale    At The Scale Of A City District, The Treatment Of Multiple Voids, Private Or Public, Is Being Implemented As Part Of The Project. Here, It Is A Question Of Filling A Void, A Neglected Area. In The Center Of A City. The Idea Is That It Will Become The Future Center According To The Intentions Of Those Responsible. But... ... There Was To Be No Continuation Because It Was A Fictitious Competition, A Competition To Be Won. Electoral Purpose. Damage.