Getting out of the constraint
"Putting your creativity, your technique, your view and your "aerographic gesture" at the service of others is a rewarding professional exercise but it would not fully satisfy the soul of an artist who, patiently, waits to be able to reveal himself in a personal work. " It is on the hours stolen from his nights, from the tip of a graphite-inspired mine, that Xavier Boully, little by little, draws his universe. In his nocturnal wanderings, to the rhythm of the screeching on the grain of the paper, more than 5000 drawings and sketches take shape in dozens of notebooks. The colorist artist, finally freed from all constraints, immerses himself in a black and white world.
Many times worked, his sketches are refined, brought together, giving on the canvas new forms, new compositions, where appear chaotic and strange graphic structures with a mineral aspect. As if to contain his nocturnal overflows, Xavier Boully links the elements, creating complex games of ligatures and knots in art bondage design.
Would the artist fear that his imagination would escape him, so that he would feel the impetuous need to keep his creation tied? ...
He, who works during the day in a permanent technical color constraint, here he is, at night, confronted with a free graphic overflow in weightlessness, where, only, black and white oppose, giving birth to a universe where floats an enigmatic mineral "bondage".
