“A Pavarotti sings best on its tree”.

Pavarotti on a tree.

Funny image.

When I mentioned the title of the exhibition, a friend remarked: “The tree had better be strong enough to support Pavarotti's weight”.

But with Pavarotti, the weight of his body is inversely proportional to the lightness of his soul. The same goes for the physical weight of my canvases and what emanates from them

 Body and soul, materiality and spirituality have always been at the heart of painting.

What's important in painting is not the material itself, but what transpires through it.

The relationship with matter at the impasto to a raw treatment of paint so that a song can emerge.

May it come even remotely close to the heights reached by Pavarotti.

The title is also a tribute to Alejandro Jodorowski and his book “A bird sings best on its tree”.

In this case, the tree is genealogical, and the book focuses on the impact of transgenerational influences on our personal destiny. Knowing your family tree helps you to sing your life better.

The question of origins, the tree, the garden and nature recurs throughout this series of paintings.

When it comes to family trees and origins, this recurring preoccupation of mine can probably be explained by the fact that I'm a polyglot Frenchman of Ukrainian origin, whose family went into exile in Paraguay.

Franco-Paraguayan-Ukrainian...so that's my tree!