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Apr\u00e8s quelques ann\u00e9es d’expression figurative, Denis Zammit s’est tourn\u00e9 vers une approche plus abstraite de ses sujets. Ses th\u00e8mes, en \u00e9cho avec la nature, sont d\u00e9clin\u00e9s dans diverses s\u00e9ries traitant du paysage, sa min\u00e9ralit\u00e9, le reflet et les mouvements de l’eau, ou encore le corps dans sa verticalit\u00e9 et son myst\u00e8re. Il tente par cette exploration, de trouver un passage qui relie le monde ext\u00e9rieur, celui qui l’inspire, au monde int\u00e9rieur celui qui l’anime et qui l’\u00e9meut. Comme une travers\u00e9e. C’est le chemin entre ces deux espaces, si une fronti\u00e8re ou une rupture les s\u00e9parent r\u00e9ellement, qu’il essaie de tracer et d’emprunter de toiles en toiles. Chacune d’elles venant ouvrir un regard tout \u00e0 la fois particulier, mais \u00e9galement en lien avec une vision plus globale de la s\u00e9rie cr\u00e9\u00e9e. Face \u00e0 la pluralit\u00e9 des diverses vies respectives que nous habitons, cette exp\u00e9rience se veut intime et de partage tout \u00e0 la fois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Techniquement, les pigments naturels, l’encre, la cendre, le brou de noix, la cire, le papier maroufl\u00e9, l’acrylique sont les m\u00e9diums qu’il utilise. Travaill\u00e9s sur papier, sur toile ou sur bois pour les volumes. Il affectionne leur capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 g\u00e9n\u00e9rer un dialogue entre geste contr\u00f4l\u00e9, intention et retour al\u00e9atoire. Ils cristallisent la continuit\u00e9 de son approche picturale, tourn\u00e9e vers le questionnement et l’\u00e9merveillement, de ce qui nous entoure et qui nous constitue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0Dans un monde o\u00f9 les images sont consomm\u00e9es toujours plus et plus vite, la rencontre avec l\u2019\u0153uvre, ne peut avoir lieu que dans un retour au temps long. En se laissant impr\u00e9gner par ce que l’on regarde. Dans une interaction sensitive avec les tableaux ou les sculptures qui s’offrent au regardeur. Une perception propre \u00e0 chacune et \u00e0 chacun, pour peut-\u00eatre p\u00e9n\u00e9trer et se d\u00e9couvrir dans l’un de ces paysages int\u00e9rieurs. Miroirs de la nature, ils nous parlent de l’impermanence de ce qui est, de ce que l’on regarde, de ce que l’on vit. Une transformation perp\u00e9tuelle et universelle. Appara\u00eetre, prendre corps, mati\u00e8re, texture et dispara\u00eetre. Pour devenir autre.\u00a0\u00bb <\/em> Denis Zammit<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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To find and\u00a0 unroll the thread which links us to nature and the place we occupy here, is what animates my creations. The tenuous thread where this poetry of nature, of our environment brings us back to the being, to a discussion between outside and inside. Contemplation is the core of my paintings. In my studio when I come back to the sensation of the fixed gaze I listen to a sort of harmony between what I put on the canvas or the volume and which is the response generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the elements earth, air and water, mental landscapes take shape and open up new, more abstract spaces, reflections of our intimate sensations. The mediums I use such as walnut stain, ink, wax, pigments binding acrylic and oil, ash and paper allow a back and forth between controlled gesture and random appearance. Their interest lies in their capacity of interaction, mixing, dispersion and erasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between intimate and universal trying to find a path which allowed us to create his own path of painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between earth and sky: A feeling of matter      <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The power of the mineral is omnipresent in Denis Zammit\u2019s works. All immersed in his place of life, inhabited by the telluric forces of the nearby mountain, with its strata, its meanders, its soft and powerful forms, its halo of whiteness, Denis transcribes in fervour and passion his sensations and emotions. His paintings speak of the earth and the sky, of the rock that stands in between, sometimes imposing itself, white, grey or ochre, lined with ash or wax, following the painter\u2019s inspiration. Magic works\u2026 the gaze plunges into infinity, has difficulty detaching itself from it\u2026 a space of calm and serenity emerges from the painting, giving free rein to reverie, to meditation\u2026 An invitation to share Denis Zammit\u2019s intimate garden. Daisy Froger-Droz<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
In the way of these \u00ab\u00a0dream stones\u00a0\u00bb from China or Japan, Denis Zammit\u2019s paintings introduce us into spaces mimetically related to \u00ab\u00a0landscapes\u00a0\u00bb, mirors of an interiority where coloured areas are concretized, pushed towards the greatest abstraction by the use of blurred colours, layered in suites of horizontal zonings. The coloured materials integrate all density, degradation, erosion, dilution, collusion, dispersion, with transparencies that sometimes thwart subtle ranges of opacity. These are always stratified in horizontal planes such as terrestrial sediments. And at the same time as the gaze lets itself be drawn into the reverie of the distant, by an inversion of perception, one can plunge into other reveries just as well where the force of details leads to unfathomable depths. There is the game that creates the efflorescence of inexhaustible, suspended and recreated worlds. Jo\u00ebl-Claude Meffre<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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