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About this series
14 paintings on canvas, evoking the bipolarity between conflict and pact.
What Micheline LO said about it
This series is even more a daughter of Chemins des écritures.
A stemmed glass, fallen onto the canvas without premeditation, was meant to evoke conviviality.
This led to fourteen bipolar canvases, luminous poles of peace, dark poles of hostility.
What Henri VAN LIER said about it
On the other hand, one does not get involved in Self-generation of the living, and then in that of the Universe,
without realizing that any generation means the existence of Conflict,
that War which Heraclitus called "the father of all things",
or recalling that conflicts are resolved through transient compromises that are the metastable moments (Simondon)
of the compatibilizing Evolution of rocks, plants, animals, tools, and signs.
In sum, in the beginning of the beginnings there are The Conflict and The Pact.
The Traités de paix (Peace treaties) were probably the most liberated creations of Micheline Lo,
who no longer needed be concerned with any particular circumstance.
She was then open to pure contrasts, unifications, numerations, topologies,
i.e. the pleasure of painting almost without any program, and an acquiescence to the basal movement of things.
As she was deeply troubled by the predicament of Palestine, she painted about ten Traités de Guerre (War treaties) which she ended up destroying because the subject was either not suited to a painter of generations, or was too narrowly historic to lend itself to cosmogonic intentions. Or perhaps the Traités de paix were comprehensive enough to have included, besides the Pact, the essential moves of the Traités de guerre which were thus deprived of their proper substance. |