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[CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW WORKS]<\/p><\/div>‘Furr\u2019s latest series Jouissance was born after viewing an artificially generated explosion in a lab, a visual that remained with him as a conceptual framework. Referencing the spectacular ending of Zabriskie Point, a five-minute sequence of a single explosion, repeated in super slow motion, demonstrates the abstract quality of film itself. Actual objects are transformed into a riot of color and form.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nTaking it further into contemporary language, Christian became interested in the elemental quality of the \u201cfake\u201d explosion, the special effects used to create \u201creality\u201d. Employing a traditional treatment of the subject, he adopts Warhol\u2019s fascination with mass-production, making multiple versions of a single image. Diamond dust and artificially high color are used to enhance the \u201cspecial effects\u201d: each canvas is a unique variation, with the artist\u2019s hand and eye altering the single image into an infinite kaleidoscopic view of a one-time event.<\/p>\nThe literal translation of Jouissance is physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy. According to the artist, it is the duality of both mind and body that led him to the title for this painting cycle. Intended as an ongoing series, he will continue to explore perception of the artificial and the actual, eventually working with each of the four essential elements in Western culture: earth, air, fire and water. As always, Christian will push the limits of traditional painting while at the same time taking the underlying concepts to new heights.’ – Fran Kaufman 2015<\/p>\n‘There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n–\u00a0Mark Twain<\/p>\nJouissance is a loaded word. \u2018In French, \u2018Jouissance\u2019 means enjoyment, in terms both of rights and property, and of sexual orgasm \u2014 the latter has a meaning partially lacking in the English word \u201cenjoyment\u201d.<\/p>\nThe titles from these works come from the poets. They worked in words, I work in images, I want the two to work in unison. I suppose its about the common search for the sublime in abstraction. Transcending human form what lies beyond?<\/p>\nWordsworth defined \u201cpoetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. He said that \u201cit takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.\u201d This definition comes from the idea of the poet\u2019s creative process. That creative process begins directly from personal experience. When someone has a memorable experience, they\u00a0sometimes express it by writing or painting and it is composed with a meaningful and beautiful word in mind. In this case the word for the series is ‘Jouissance’<\/p>\n\u2018For\u00a0my mind would overflow with tenderness\u2019 Is taken from a letter by Stuart Sutcliffe talking about his love for Astrid Kirchher<\/p>\n\u2018I do love a girl but I\u00a0will\u00a0speak little of her for\u00a0my mind would overflow with tenderness\u2019<\/em><\/p>\nI saw a film of computer generated explosion at a VFX company and when I slowed it down and played it backwards and forwards it looked poetic to me like a painting. I decided to paint it.<\/p>\nSome time later I was doing yoga and relaxing after practise and our French teacher was talking about yogic Buddhist philosophy. There are three Gods all equally important. Brahma as creator, Vishnu as preserver or protector, and Shiva as destroyer\/transformer the God\u00a0of destruction thats when the image of the explosion appeared to me in colours. At the highest level, Shiva is regarded as limitless, transcendent, unchanging and formless.<\/p>\nI needed to paint the artificially generated explosion first to make it real \u2013 because it turns it into something else. It is originally a shadow of something. By that I mean it is a fabricated image or sequence of images of an explosion made by man \u2013 generated with non existent particles by software on a computer. It doesn\u2019t happen in reality. When I paint it, it does \u2018happen\u2019, It\u2019s organic and the process of physically making it removes it from a thing that doesn\u2019t actually exist to one\u00a0that does. The irony is, it is an artistic image of something that is ceasing to exist that will exist forever.<\/p>\nAfter the original oil painting comes the hand finished coloured\u00a0works.<\/p>\nIf it goes into blackness in a square it\u2019s more about ephemerality of life.<\/p>\nThe final diamond dust is the result of the following process:<\/p>\nI paint an artificial digital image of an explosion created with a particle system. The original oil painting is scanned then I alter it digitally and colour it. This altered image is then printed and if is on canvas I paint over it. Then diamond dust is applied on top.<\/p>\nI love \u2018Zabriskie Point\u2019 by Antonioni the director of \u2018Blow Up\u2019. It ends in explosions and it\u00a0influenced this series too.<\/p>\nI suppose you could say that \u2018Jouissance\u2019 is an image of an intellectual conception of cosmic order.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s about the elements and it is\u00a0a Vanitas symbol. The explosion as a symbol or motif could be seen as the logical conclusion of artists fascination over the centuries with \u2018De Natura\u2019, \u2018Vanitas\u2019 and \u2018effect\u2019.<\/p>\nIf Velazquez or JMW Turner were around today I think they would be painting\u00a0explosions too.<\/p>\nMy Jouissance\u00a0vision\u00a0conjures up many possibilities : \u00a0celestial sensation, ecstacy, spirit, destruction, ephemerality, a gem stone, orgasm, blossoming flower, fertility and a symbol for the\u00a0release of energy and emotion that is life itself in an instant…<\/p>\n\u2013 The joy of life. Release of Energy that is life.<\/p>\n\u2018All that is solid melts into air\u2019 \u2013 Karl Marx<\/p>\n\u2018Pretty soon I\u2019ll be blown away\u2019 \u2013 Beach Boys<\/p>\n\u2018I still love explosions to this day\u2019 \u2013 Ginger Baker<\/p>\n\u2018The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it \u2026\u2019 \u2013 Bukowski<\/p>\n‘The very centre of your heart is where life begins, the most beautiful place on earth’ <\/em><\/p>\n– Rumi<\/p>\n‘One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star’<\/em><\/p>\n– Nietschze<\/p>\n\u2013 Christian Furr 2015<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Furr\u2019s latest series Jouissance was born after viewing an artificially generated explosion in a lab, a visual that remained with him as a conceptual framework. 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