Christian d\' Orgeix

Christian d' Orgeix , born in 1927 with Foix of an old family of the local Nobility, is a French painter attached to the Surréalisme.

Initially near to the post- Cubism, it takes as a starting point Albert Gleizes. Gone up in Paris at the end of the Forties, it works there with Hans Bellmer and assists it in the creation of its second " Poupée" (1949). This meeting will be decisive because it makes it possible Christian d' Orgeix to attend the surrealist ones in Paris. It côtoie moreover the viscountess de Noailles and Henri-Pierre Rock.

Exposed in Germany before being it in France (since 1955) he discovers in Berlin the painting of Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern and Richard Oelze. Later, it binds friendship with Wols, Sam Francis and becomes the mentor of Konrad Klapheck. It was also close to Roberto Matta and Simon Hantaï, his former comrade of room. In the context of post-war period, of Orgeix neither really the membership of surrealism nor really engagement near the artists of the abstract one chooses. This not-choice will leave a little the painting of Christian d' Orgeix apart from a history of art awaited but it as well as possible incarnates the pictorial stakes which are worked out in Paris of the years 50-60.

Christian d' Orgeix took part in the documented II (1959) and with the documented III (1964) of Kassel. It also takes part in the " group; Phases".

The pictorial universe of Orgeix appears oneiric first of all, while having a quality of carnal texture near to that of Francis Bacon. But the contents of its works, always reveal by very precise titles, though often humorous, wants to be voluntarily anchored in reality. Its table " Général" is a wild load against Charles de Gaulle, which one recognizes without sorrow. One also finds in his painting a balance of the various tendencies which the avant-gardes in Paris according to Second world war meet. At the same time abstract or at least nonfigurative painting, i.e., near to the abstract artists, mechanical or biomorphic reasons that one guess, here where there, also incontestably return its painting to a design surréalisante. The gesture is present and the funds are generally built by having recourse to the automatism that Hans Bellmer had taught to him. this oscillation between lyric abstraction and painting of marvellous, place the work of Orgeix to crossed these different strong pictorial currents and gives him its esthetic interest.

As a sculptor, of Orgeix recycles the " trouvés" objects; or stones and stones whose form inspires it, and obtains often astonishing results from them. The found stones are interpreted with painting for (as made a Joan Miro) giving to the object lithic a poetic dimension. This poetic is not without pointing out the work of André Breton which places the stones in the surrealist factory.

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" Trouvés" objects;
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