Yves Dimier, contemporary calligraphy
The calligraphy is in principle reserved for representations without external resemblance as would have any model in figurative painting. Here the calligraph is inspired by drawings after living models and yet the line expresses its variations in the scriptural field. When the form appears the elapsed time would suffice to write a small sentence. For Yves Dimier, painting is writing the meaning.
It's not the picture that counts.
That's the gesture.
The gesture is fleeting.
The trait is its consequence.
The one who creates the gesture will seek in the deep dimensions of oneself, those where the oceans of peace, love, elevation are extended, to show the way to the one who looks.
It succeeds more or less successfully.
Only the path counts
Yves Dimier
Contemporary Calligraphy: Where does writing start and where does the drawing end?
Without producing a faithful representation of his models, Yves Dimier gives us a view of their appearance, let's say their existence. An allegory that Asian painters designate as « the inner outline of things ». He extracts from his vision a more global imprint of reality. Beyond the visible, the image seems to contain an invisible part, we perceive features that do not exist.
When he tracks his contemporary calligraphy, Yves obviously seeks to evoke the form, but jointly a large part of this expiration passes through the meaning, as if the ink lineaments contained the words of a poetry. These are written drawings.
Contemporary Calligraphy: Where does writing start and where does the drawing end?
Without producing a faithful representation of his models, Yves Dimier gives us a view of their appearance, let's say their existence. An allegory that Asian painters designate as « the inner outline of things ». He extracts from his vision a more global imprint of reality. Beyond the visible, the image seems to contain an invisible part, we perceive features that do not exist.
When he tracks his contemporary calligraphy, Yves obviously seeks to evoke the form, but jointly a large part of this expiration passes through the meaning, as if the ink lineaments contained the words of a poetry. These are written drawings.
