"Jean Tirilly - Small Acrylic On Panel"
Superb small acrylic on wood panel by Jean Tirilly.
Signed and dated 2005.
Dimensions: 43 cm high x 62 cm wide, 30 cm x 44 cm for the painted part.
A typical example of Jean Tirilly's production when he lived on the Crozon Peninsula, in Roscanvel. Period when Jean painted a lot on wooden panels, various and varied doors...
Jean Tirilly is a key player in Art Brut and Singular Art, he has exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, France. His works were included in “La collection de l’Art Brut” in Lausanne. They (and he) especially touched many amateurs and collectors. Although this artist left us recently, it is estimated that he must have produced around 2000 paintings and over 1000 drawings. A compulsive, diligent, dedicated creator. "
If the word “singular” has a meaning, it can be applied to the painting of Jean Tirilly. I see quite a few images passing by. Rarely have I discovered a world so enigmatic and alive in at the same time obvious, fascinating, and completely unexpected, unpredictable. A brilliant work is first of all a surprise. It seems to come from elsewhere, from an unknown planet, and like a gift of life, it always gives more than that. that we would be entitled to expect. There are paintings that immediately seduce you. Over time, you get tired of them. In the end, you see too much. 'where it comes from, how it's done What we liked at first suddenly seems poor, elementary, lacking mystery and complexity... I found in Tirilly's astonishing works just the opposite, a complete world. inexhaustible, resistant to pure analytical understanding, like life I only visited Jean Tirilly once, finally giving in to the pressures of his admirer. He was described to me as living as a recluse; he is indeed a great loner, entirely devoted to the daily exploration of his inner universe; sailor on a cargo ship from sixteen to twenty-two years old, then, among other things, a dishwasher in a restaurant to one day afford the freedom to paint. Tirilly is a child of the 70s, who first wanted to be a writer and published poems with small publishers in the region. In the ten years since he started painting, he has always worked with acrylics, generally on paper, more rarely on canvas, or even on the back of an oilcloth, and he mounts his images from a black background, like a photo in the developer... How can we describe these human melee, this bustle of life, this frenetic and colorful match that Tirilly's paintings depict? With these faces, masks with hollow orbits, the mouth always open, like dead pumpkins or old broken locks, the clever play of colored interlacing, stylizations of arms and legs without bodies, and the glimpses of the sky or the sea or pieces rural settings, bits of landscapes, houses, villages, treated to a minimum, as in the collections of Italian primitives. A world of joyful dying people, of undead in turmoil, of zombies on the prowl, closer to the ballad of the hanged men or a festive vision of the last judgment than to the profane frivolity of Commedia del arte. Because the very skillfully mastered color is misleading in the world of Tirilly, where the reaper, the ankou of the parish enclosures, prowls with comic book coloring. A monstrous Halloween, Jean Tirilly's tournaments and pitched battles are a puppet theater where life and death are played out in a furious stadium. “Art should always make you laugh a little and scare you a little” said Dubuffet. It is from this ambiguity that all the tension is born which is the strength of Jean Tirilly's images. A very mental art, condensed of life, where in a symbolic writing of great coherence, this Villon of painting, great poet of an era of change, offers us, with a minimum of accessories, a child's boat for say the sea, a steering wheel to evoke a car, beautiful non-verbal fables about the current adventures of the human condition. The truth is always bitter like medicine, you have to wrap it in sugar to get it across. It is the whole game of art which, spontaneously, knows how to get to the essential and hide the drama under shimmering surroundings. Laurent Danchin 2002"
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