Alain Huck

Born in 1957 in Vevey (Switzerland), he lives in Lausanne (Switzerland).

Although he sometimes works in other media (video, installation or projection of digitised images), Alain Huck remains first and foremost a follower of drawing, at the deliberate crossroads of the figurative and the abstract. This is a regular practice for him, giving rise in particular to the suite Vite soyons heureux il le faut je le veuxil le faut je le veux, initiated in 1993, but which he can just as easily push to a monumental format.

In 2006, JRP/Ringier published an important monograph on him.

What does the phrase "Where I'm going, there I am" mean to you?

To go on, I say to myself. Be what I am, follow what will be. To bend, to oscillate between the vertical and the horizontal, the step and the pause. In a dream, a luminous newspaper flashes "what you are, we were, what we are, you will be".

What does your project or your artistic proposal consist of?

I present in Castres and at the Sollertis gallery a series of landscapes of a mental nature, abstract or sometimes realistic. Across time and space, evocations of collective tragedies (Kori Ame, Marzabotto, Le Salon) mingle with the obscure strata of our individual consciousness (Beyond it all, Locus solus, Extinction, Hortus conclusus). Haunted by shadows and title words sometimes inscribed in the images, these drawings are made with charcoal ash on large paper. A vertical or horizontal veil obscures them, blurring or revealing the issues of images and language (Omertà, Je vais raconter), perhaps to the point of mourning them.
At the Sollertis gallery, two constructions made of recuperated elements stand face to face like inert bodies. Through the play of mirrors and dust, the words "mens songe" on one and "opera" on the other refer to the various levels of duplication in certain drawings. In the video No see no bomb, a steady exhalation of mist erases a city until nightfall. From minute to minute, the sound presence of the breath envelops the space.

What does art allow you to accomplish?

Sometimes I think I find lost moments that make reality more bearable for me, and that echoes of it reach them.