"The first contact with the work of Edouard Wolton is a vertigo. Between strong aesthetic identity and heterogeneous motives, between plastic delight and rigorous conceptual approach, between homage to rationality and mystical drift, the oxymoron art of this young painter plays and plays with the contradictions inherent to the question of representation. Claiming the necessary relation of all these oppositions, his creation sails in troubled waters, but this
but this river populated of hiatus is well alone and unique. Like many young artists of his generation, Édouard Wolton has chosen to paint in order to give an account of a universe whose contemplation never ceases to produce new questions."
Guillaume Benoît
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For his first solo exhibition in a gallery, this young artist, who graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris in 2010, presents a two-part scenography proposing works in which mathematics, geometry and Nature are mixed. Through a study of minerals, luminous phenomena or geometric theories, the artist weaves a link between different elements extracted from nature to inscribe them in a coherent and rationalized thought of the representation.
Agartha, the title of the first exhibition, is based on the theory that the earth is hollow and contains an ordered system with its own sun. This term refers to an inaccessible space where total knowledge resides. This artistic hypothesis is related to scientific theories as well as to poetic approaches or science fiction novels, such as Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The name Agartha, that of a legendary subterranean kingdom, allows us to weave a link between the landscape, the rock, the minerals and the various mathematical theories in the perspective of creating a complete rationalization of the elements. Hollow earth, the earth's crust, imagination and symbols form an autonomous and total world.
The title of the second exhibition, Photometeors, refers to optical phenomena resulting from a change in sunlight or earthlight. The most frequent manifestations, such as rainbows, shooting stars or twilights, permeate our daily lives. Thus these processes, long fantasized, create an immaterial link between our atmosphere and the cosmos. Similar to luminous vortexes, his works associate celestial and organic light sources (coral, fireflies, etc.) to retranscribe at best the order of Nature.