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Quid
novi,
demande à chaque fois Yves Hayat, question implicite qui est
le ressort même de la Création. Le dévoilement du
monde par le regard est l'action qui fait de la vie une naissance renouvelée.
Cette opération n'aurait aucune valeur si le monde en question
était transparent, et le regard tout-puissant. Le regard est
voilé, comme l'est le langage, celui qui modèle les apparitions
du monde dans les secrets de notre psychisme, et ne nous est donné
que par bribes. Bribes de signifiants, de représentations, et
c'est ainsi que l'artiste qui produit cet inaccessible en débris
a des chances de faire résonner quelque chose du magma qui nous
tombe dessus à chaque instant. Pris dans la partition du monde
(dans les deux sens du terme), nous ânonnons, à la manière
des personnages de Samuel Beckett, quelques borborygmes où entrent
en collision la mémoire, l'accident, le projet, l'interprétation,
l'espoir de survivre, la beauté, l'espoir d'être aimé,
l'espoir que les enfants mis au monde aient devant eu un espace pour
accéder à l'être. L'angoisse même engendre
une dynamique, et même du désastre. Cette
violence, Yves Hayat l'accueille, il la pétrit aux cendres et
au vitriol, et avant tout par le contraste. Un coup de gong à
réveiller les morts ! Belle méditation sur la Forme, où
deux plans, celui de l'imaginaire et celui du réel, s'interpénètrent,
car, justement, même si les belles endormies, en tant qu'images,
semblent d'abord plaquées, elles sont corrompues, envahies par
" l'actualité ", plus de repos pour elles, et donc
pour nous.
Entre paradis et destruction, les plexiglas-écrans d'Yves Hayat projettent l'ambivalence humaine, l'archaïsme double des saveurs édéniques de la fusion avec une toute-puissance rêvée (une jouissance ressentie comme parfaite), et du rejet de l'autre, pour exister. Le plexiglas, matière minimale, concrétion de lumière pour laisser filtrer de l'image pure, presque un hologramme, insaisissable entre les doigts, sable filant dans la main, joue de tous ses reflets sur le mur. Ce mur où cela bute, et où la réflexion peut, enfin, admettre qu'elle est " au pied du mur ". Le monde en ruines d'Yves Hayat est une proposition : reste-il un piège, où l'enfance, l'immaturité, dans chacun de ces corps, continueront d'être violées et torturées, ou un visage humain peut-il apparaître au sein des phosphènes lovés dans le magma ? C'est à l'action, semble-t-il, qu'invite cette uvre, au-delà du regard neuf. Cela passe par l'exil de soi. France Delville, 20 janvier 2006 |
Quid
novi (anything new), always asks Yves Hayat, implicit question which deeply
sustains Creation. Telling about debris, opposing to dreams those ruins make flint sparks fly, and these sparkles are in Yves Hayat's work, where beauty is even more striking because it is dirtied, menaced, threatened by all dangers, all murders, all stupidity, all unhappiness. What is beauty? Aesthetics (from a Greek word meaning "who can perceive") has put the question for thousand years. No answers, but some "installations" already, those of Praxiteles, Velasquez, Manet, Vinci, Botticelli, Modigliani, Tuner and hundreds of others, and a definition of that beauty that has been moving until it has become for Duchamp the anti-beauty . but it is unsinkable. "Détournement" (revisitated work) being probably a key-approach of the sharpest contemporary art comes from far away. And the very reason is that its invention was generated by a major doubt over anything that could be considered as civilization and progress. Originally, the Dadaist collage was a political stance, a fragmentation and bringing closer, like criticism. Later, the I.S. holders (I.S. stands for "Internationale Situationniste") will say it is a "conscious creation of situations". Playing with the real and performing it like a film director in order to squeeze out its juice, when " traditional arts were completely worn out [ ] and have become unable to produce any revelation". Compared with earlier collages, "the recent development of this process, wrote Petr Kral in 1982, particularly brings forward three new elements: use of photographs and current advertising photo style, ironical and contest references to dedicated works of art". The critical "détournement" of the old painting reached a peak of violence and humour with Enrico Baj and Asger Jorn. Following this trend, Yves Hayat first detours his pictures from the global cultural business called the Internet, reworks them in a very complex and subtle way and then goes further ahead into violence and humour as well as, when considering their form, into derision. He wants his pictures to be fuzzy even before their reflection on the wall goes further blurring their shape. Your eye frustrated then is disconcerted, to be taken with its true meaning: the content is unreachable. You are cut from the content and kept in the arbitrary of the signified. And then, what an adventure: a whole path from the classic picture being locked up in its significances to the current enigma. Indeed, the smooth bodies enlightened to phosphorescence and made languid by laziness, rest, passivity, availability, sensuality remain in fact in the very concrete heart of the work, a call to paradise. All these women were only painters' dreams. It is well known now what real women were like, simple models, let's say imaginary women. New mass media, photo, video, plexi are strong in making the spectator know that he is in a virtual world. This beneficial break-into forces him to open his eyes and shove out the good old contract based on canvass, oil, brushes, pen, paper, print etc. Violence: Yves Hayat welcomes it, kneads it with ashes and vitriol and above all else through the contrast. A stroke on a gong that could waken the dead! Beautiful meditation on the Shape, where two planes, the imaginary one and the real one interpenetrate each other because, even if indeed the beautiful lady-sleepers as pictures first seem to be plated, these women are corrupted, invaded by the news ; no more rest for them and therefore for us. Godard's passage as quoted by Yves Hayat is really extraordinary: one should not make political films but politically make them. In order to get out of the mythologies, ideologies, to think with a structural approach everyone's appearance. Ethic is worth it. Reintroducing ethic from the source, in your eyes, which may be able to bring some ethic into actions. These phosphorescent women move us not only because they are as perfect as dolls but also because the news let us know about a miracle, that of a few women becoming executives. They are not dolls for they are in the real of their bodies, neither beautiful nor ugly, that is not any more the question as something has become possible; there is a break in fantasy. This series of works by Yves Hayat is timely. Women don't pose any more for men; they pose as being those who know about how to rule the world. Now vertical, some announce they will bring disaster down. Yves Hayat comes and unsticks the representation of women with as much vigour as subtlety a kind of "de-Affichism" (a reverse approach to that of the Affichists Hains, Rotella, Villeglé, Dufresne). The conventional and driving image he unsticks comes on its own from far away, from the reptilian brain. The peoples' memory -which can hardly be turned inside out like a glove or like a reptile sheds its skin, follows the everlasting imaginary enemy in the individual myth of the neurotic. The old tribal hate, coming from the guts and never revisited, "evident", a word that comes from "video": I can see. What the daily eye can see is the tapestry of the myth. Between paradise and destruction, Yves Hayat's Plexiglas-screens display the human ambivalence, the double archaism of the Eden-like flavours of the fusion with a dreamed omnipotence (an enjoyment felt as perfect) and the rejection of the other which makes you exist. Plexiglas, minimal matter, concretion of light that lets filter some pure image, nearly a hologramme, elusive in the fingers like sand running through your hand, plays with all its reflections on the wall onto which that stops. And then you can admit you are at last thinking about it "with your back to the wall". The world in ruin of Yves Hayat is a proposal: does it remain like a trap into which childhood, immaturity in each of these bodies will keep on being raped and tortured, or can a human face appear in the middle of the phosphenes coiled up in the magma? Beyond just having a new eye, this work seems to invite you to act, and that goes through the exile of your self. France
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