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Characteristics of a "rectoversé" painting
A "rectoversé" painting is a bi-dimensional painting
achieved based on the artistic concept created and developed by Michel
De Caso since 1991. The two sides of a "rectoversé" painting
are painted and perforated right through. This characteristic gives a
"rectoversé" painting its 'three-sided' nature.
The three sides are:
1. The side you see: its virtual front (recto).
2. The side you cannot see at the same time: its virtual back (verso).
3. The openings made up of vacuum which cross right through the two sides
and which make up the third side.
History of the original "Rectoversion"
It is by gradually moving the painting away from the wall and then by rotating the front side that MdC makes the back of the painting visible. As the back of the painting can be seen, he began to paint non-perforated double-sided paintings. As he wanted to move beyond the standard two pole front and back ratio of traditional paintings, he began to perforate both sides in different places in order to give the painting a compound nature. He gave this 'plastic operation' the name Rectoversion, based on a French neologism which literally means "rotation of the front side".
Original "Rectoversion" philosophy
Rectoversion was born of the calling into question of the front (recto) of the painting. Its problems are neither that of sculpture, nor that of the vacuum, nor that of transparency. It fits resolutely into the two-dimensional field of painting following the confrontation of the front and the back. Cutting the umbilical cord which traditionally connects paintings to the wall, "rectoversion" does not function on the fusional and identity-based mode but opens towards another multiple and contradictory sphere.
Original Rectoversion and "rectoversion, from the year 10 to 10.000"
« In the movement rectoversion, from the year
10 to 10.000, Michel De Caso proposes rectoversion as support-concept:
- two faces in an additional and dialectical relation by rotating the
front side (in the free interpretation of the viewer), a thickness, openings
around the idea of recognition and overtaking of the recto-verso
duality, putting the viewer in actor's position of sense.
- support-concept which breaks away partially from its historicity to
offer to each a possibility of personal and original expression. The fact
that the support-concept is succeeded deprives not at all its value of
vector and springboard; it thus opens the place to the originality for
whom wants to seize it positively. »(Fabrice BIANCHI)
When one writes the word "rectoversion" and for reasons of convenience, it was decided to put a "R" capital letter when one indicates the original concept and to put a "r" lower-case when the movement is indicated.
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