Thierry W. Despont

Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorfoul magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the "abstract sublime," they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension. Born in France, Thierry Despont is an architect, designer and artist who resides and works in New York. As an architect, Despont has acquired an outstanding reputation as a foremost residential designer with an elite clientele in both North America and Europe. He was Associate Architect for the Centennial Restoration of the Statue of Liberty, and designed the interiors of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles. As an artist, Thierry Despont is represented by the Marlborough Gallery in New York and London. 80 b/w photographs

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