Final Trilogy part 1 War exhibits an undefined set of small-format oil paintings (40x50 cm, or 50x60 cm). This format was chosen to paint a single portrait against a landscape or cloudy sky background. The color palette is intense, deliberately saturated to give the scene a chromatic intensity that echoes one of the artist's pictorial reflections: flesh has symptoms. Where realism is not limited to rendering the skin as it appears, but where colors are expressive beyond natural light. The scenes play with double readings: floating souls, as well as signs or symbols that create a rebus constitutive of meaning. The subject is war, a return from the front, where the portrait painted is that of a soldier returning to the rear lines, until the next day, when his life will once again be on the line. The absurdity of the human condition, but the necessity of states: cannon fodder, whatever the era, is always on the front lines.
