ORELART PARIS Art Contemporain Russe et International

The Emperor and Galilean project, inspired of the Henrik Ibsen’s play, does not raise any more of symbolism to the traditional sense, but is not either academism. The interaction and contradiction of various processes in sculpture and painting, which are the ingredients of the dish called painting, give taste, by their fine irony, to the feast composed by artworks of this series.

The experiments of the XXth century, which generated the transformation and the impoverishment of the representation, proved that it was necessary and essential, being the most independent means and most complete to think and perceive the world.

When H. Ibsen wrote Emperor and Galilean, Humanity was held with the crossing of two ways, the way of Louis of Bavaria and that of Freud, Nietzsche and Marx. And today, when Humanity is found on the central place one market day, when the museums leave place with the circuses and the travelling puppets and when the fast-foods drive out the long meals, it is important to remember the value of the rule and the purity of perception, to keep in memory the ideals which will accompany us in after-life.

The truth or the beauty? Such is the question, which torments Julien. Such is the conflict of the contemporary art during all the XXth century.
By carrying out this project, I wanted, in my works, to give life to the ideas of Henrik Ibsen, but also to propose my own way to leave the crisis which art passes through these last decades.

Olga Tobreluts