Paris: Métamorphoses by Anton F. at Galerie de l’Europe

With Métamorphoses, Anton F. offers an interpretation of our relationship to man and, consequently, to life. In a time when the cult of appearances and standardization prevail, what space remains for us to preserve our identity? The obsession with exercise, of a single framework within which man should evolve, often deprives us of the essential.

Turning to the methods used by the Expressionists, Anton F. distorts faces to the extreme.Bodies are bloated, blurred, lost in a space where all emotions are on display. This sometimes strange atmosphere underlines the violence of the world we live in, depleting all psychological possibilities. Doubt and fear can be glimpsed at in these portraits where anxiety wells up underneath the mask. Man, captive of his image, becomes his own jailer. These characters, searching for something other than their own reflection are surprised in their daily lives, frozen, lost in the shadows.

However, these “Metamorphoses” are also part of the life cycle. Our faces and our bodies often illustrate our inner joys and torments. What is this girl with the slightly tilted head thinking about? Her eyes closed, a nascent smile on her purple lips, she seems to be inviting us to dream with her as dawn breaks.

Through these palimpsests, Antoine F. follows in the footsteps of Ovid, Ingres and his odalisques, Van Gogh and his sunflowers, Degas and his dancers, Picasso, Bacon—every artists who understood that it was their role to show us life.

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