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Daniel Schlier

Exhibition — Couvent des Jacobins

Daniel Schlier, exhibition view, Couvent des Jacobins, Toulouse, 2005

© Printemps de septembre, photo André Morin

 

Born in 1960 in Dannemarie (France), he lives in Strasbourg (France).

 

Daniel Schlier's painting is without doubt among the most surprising that it is currently possible to see. Playing with the ideas of reality and imagination, of excess and the bizarre, seduction and the foreign, but also with repulsion and anguish, this artist produces pure, intellectual images, composite visions from phantasmagorical scenes. A mountain thinking about a child, skeletal trees with neckties and fighter planes hanging from their branches, giants embracing engines, and cohorts of grimacing chimeras inhabit unlikely landscapes. Even the very materiality of his painting, fixed under glass, has something mineral and metallic about it, a paradoxical fluidity.

 

Through the window of his painting, we discover "the mystery beneath our eyes" (D. Schlier), the other side of reality. We can perhaps look to Schlier for a prelude to the end of the traumatic vertigo of an autophagic world. Schlier is displaying a recent series together with new canvases at Les Jacobins.