"Racine" tray by Robert Tatin, 40 cm in diameter, 1.2 kg.
Linen fabrics stored for unsold since 1991 reprint "Racine by Robert Tatin"
Number 1
"Racine" tray, Robert Tatin collection
Material: 100% linen fabric / resin made from recycled PET bottles
Design: Fred Morand
Artist: Robert Tatin
Racine , 1978, oil on canvas, 46 cm x 38 cm
Small format of vertical composition and two-tone palette (red and white) representing a mass of naked characters, men and women, interlocking with each other over the entire surface of the painting. The different elements are surrounded by a marked red line, this work seems to be unfinished.
If we think of our world as artificial, exoticism will seek the natural elsewhere. The primary objective is to free man from the rules and conventions imposed by everyday life and to make him rediscover the spontaneity of the child, his initial nature, his very essence.
The observation of the living model is not enough to overcome the fixity of the image, the artist must invent subterfuges consistent with his mode of representation and his subject without disturbing the viewer's eye. Robert Tatin does not escape this particularly complex constraint to resolve when faced with the representation, translation, expression of the body in movement.
These representations, which Robert Tatin reveals to us through his experiments, are so many steps towards the knowledge of humanity.