PHILIPPE MAYAUX – BUTTERFLY DIVINITIES
2021-01-04Mayaux’s latest paintings are more reflexive than ever, too. Titled “Butterfly Divinities,” they form a set of small pictures on an intergalactic ground over which is splurged an almost-allover gangbang of gargoylish heads. The method that produces these figures is simple: as elsewhere in the Universe, it all starts with a blotch, which doubles up then proliferates.
But don’t to looking for Rorschach-style psychology here; these are just grimacing mouths emerging from the primal material, like shadows in the Cave. And, in a beating of wings, the butterfly becomes god and calls on Mayaux to take the constellation of his painting up a level or two, or three.
Opposite – Butterfly Divinity, 2018–2020
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2021
Loevenbruck
6, rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
France
