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Saudubray’s work is currently also featured in ‘Beyond the lines’ at the Boghossian foundation in Villa Empain. This exhibition focuses on the works and research of artists who were Residents at the Villa Empain and whose preferred practice involves the line and drawing.
The exhibition celebrates the ancestral technique of drawing, which has played a pivotal role for artists, craftsmen, and architects alike, and remains indispensable today. The exploration of forms, colours, and their endless variations, while eschewing systematism, lies at the core of the body of work on display.
Whether inspired by landscape or geometry, free or repetitive, the participating artists investigate the myriad applications, scales, and experiences of drawing, which they then present framed, placed on a plinth, suspended, or even created directly on the wall. Figurative, abstract, or at the intersection of genres, the practices featured here all create depth while playing on the monumentality of the drawing itself. In turn, the pieces reveal the underlying mechanisms of the line, which can represent the contours of the visible or, conversely, trace an invisible architecture.
The Brussels-based artist Julien Saudubray synthesizes his experiments into a practice he defines as mechanistic. He experimented extensively with the mobility of painting and its multiple applications. By reducing subjectivity to a minimum through the methodical application of transparent layers of color, he evacuates the subject from the painting to reveal its internal structure. By revealing the traces and errors that make up its architecture through repeated motifs, the painting is seen more as temporality in action than the desire to make an image.
(Photo credit: Silvia Cappellari)