Jazz, clashed portraits

Inspired by the energy of jazz and by iconic or lesser-known photographs, Alain Dauchot seeks through drawing to capture musicians in their moments of grace. Through his black and white portraits, he tries to graphically restore a part of their aura, of their mystery. His paintings — made with a knife, acrylic, and India ink — are in a way attempts at communication, communion. Self-taught, his style navigates between expressive sketch and sensitive portrait. « The obsession with faces is like a red thread in my pictorial journey. I draw in a quest for "vibration": to get out of the figurative, to overflow towards abstraction, to be there somewhere between the surface of the paper that we blacken and the deep soul of the portrait subject that we try to feel and restore, between the desire to 'represent' and the pure pleasure of drawing. A crossroads of intentions and ambitions never really reached, therefore to be put back on the loom every time! » Exhibited as part of Marni Jazz Festival, his portraits — « clashed », because made in a very impulsive way — are first and foremost tributes to jazz artists and music in general: the one that takes us « elsewhere ». Path "I started drawing as a teenager, through comics, then I branched off into caricature and editorial drawing, then little by little I started a gallery of portraits of musicians: rock first, then blues, then jazz now... Always as an 'amateur', for pleasure and passion! I followed an initiation to Japanese calligraphy and, for three years, I have been going once a week to the Marcel Hastir workshop (nude models)." A.D Technique: Black Gesso, white acrylic, pencil. instagram facebook Visible on days / evenings of performances The bar opens an hour before the show Free entry