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拍品专文
'Everything inspires my work: lived experiences, cultural and social phenomnea. But it is more and more about the internal gaze, a mix of these utopian and dystopian ideals. It all sounds kind of New Agey, but these days, that's what I'm interested in.'
(Jules de Balincourt, quoted in R. Wolff, "Strong Language" in Modern Painters, April 2010, p. 30).
Think Globally Act Locally is a monumental and exemplary example of Jules de Balincourt's investigations into a visual world that careens between the figurative and the abstract, the playful and the political. Beautifully rendered with skinny strips of colour emanating from a central nucleus, the painting radiates through its rich palette and dazzling linear energy. De Balincourt is heavily influenced by American history and culture - his art explores the contradictory facets of the United States' social, political and economic landscapes - instilled with the effects of emigrating as a child from France to California. By combining different artistic styles ranging from pop art and graffiti to American folk art, the dynamic visual lexicon created in the present lot reflects de Balincourt's response to the ever-shifting changes of our world. The bold composition here is flanked on either side by slogans in hand-rendered text: 'THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY'; at once testifying to the proliferation of mass media information and imagery in modern culture. Dealing with text, abstraction and figuration, the cacophony of lines and forms further conveys a painterly layering and compression of time, space and place. Think Globally Act Locally appeals to the viewer's yearning to escape; and it is through de Balincourt's unique mix of utopian and dystopian ideals that makes this work highly relevant and explosively contemporary.
(Jules de Balincourt, quoted in R. Wolff, "Strong Language" in Modern Painters, April 2010, p. 30).
Think Globally Act Locally is a monumental and exemplary example of Jules de Balincourt's investigations into a visual world that careens between the figurative and the abstract, the playful and the political. Beautifully rendered with skinny strips of colour emanating from a central nucleus, the painting radiates through its rich palette and dazzling linear energy. De Balincourt is heavily influenced by American history and culture - his art explores the contradictory facets of the United States' social, political and economic landscapes - instilled with the effects of emigrating as a child from France to California. By combining different artistic styles ranging from pop art and graffiti to American folk art, the dynamic visual lexicon created in the present lot reflects de Balincourt's response to the ever-shifting changes of our world. The bold composition here is flanked on either side by slogans in hand-rendered text: 'THINK GLOBALLY ACT LOCALLY'; at once testifying to the proliferation of mass media information and imagery in modern culture. Dealing with text, abstraction and figuration, the cacophony of lines and forms further conveys a painterly layering and compression of time, space and place. Think Globally Act Locally appeals to the viewer's yearning to escape; and it is through de Balincourt's unique mix of utopian and dystopian ideals that makes this work highly relevant and explosively contemporary.