Emmanuel Pereire's Limbs: Angels in the Cosmos
Emmanuel Pereire, an angelologist and painter, creates works titled 'Les Limbes' (The Limbs) that depict uncertain, blurred forms appearing and disappearing in cosmic darkness. These paintings feature heavily worked, opaque backgrounds that absorb light, manifesting an ambiguous intermediate state between painting and its disappearance. The works explore the liminal space of angels and the cosmos.
Key facts
- Emmanuel Pereire is both an angelologist and a painter.
- His series 'Les Limbes' features uncertain, blurred forms.
- The forms appear and disappear in cosmic darkness.
- The backgrounds are heavily worked and opaque, absorbing light.
- The works manifest an ambiguous intermediate state between painting and its disappearance.
- The practice is described as singular.
- The article was published in artpress in February 1986.
Entities
Artists
- Emmanuel Pereire
Institutions
- artpress
Sources
- artpress —