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Lot Essay
"Ma réaction instinctive est de me taire devant un tableau. Plus une toile me frappe, bien entendu, plus je me sens gauche. C'est bien ce que j'attends confusément d'un tableau: qu'il me coupe la parole. On n'empêchera pas qu'une toile soit d'abord une présence hiératique, close sur elle-même. On détruit une bonne part du bonheur qu'elle procure en tentant de la cerner de trop près."
Rodolphe Stadler
"My instinctive reaction is to fall silent in front of a painting. The more a canvas strikes me, naturally, the more I feel awkward. This is what I expect from a picture: that it cuts me off. This does not prevent a canvas to have, first of all, a hieratic presence, to be self-contained. We destroy much of the happiness it brings by trying to look at it too closely."
Rodolphe Stadler
Rodolphe Stadler
"My instinctive reaction is to fall silent in front of a painting. The more a canvas strikes me, naturally, the more I feel awkward. This is what I expect from a picture: that it cuts me off. This does not prevent a canvas to have, first of all, a hieratic presence, to be self-contained. We destroy much of the happiness it brings by trying to look at it too closely."
Rodolphe Stadler