Théo Viardin

"The colors smell of warm metal, the kind perceptible in blood flowing undyingly, and the forms appear diaphanous, intertwined, convoluted, and fluid, where creature and creator unite in Man, more than ever. [...]

And it’s on the basis of such precepts that the enigma arises and seeps in—this mystery that challenges creators and spectators to seek deeper meanings and to appreciate the complexity and beauty of the unknown in order to create images and narratives that confront the immediate understanding of things and invite one to reflection—a clear reference to that posed by the Sphinx in relation to Oedipus in the course of the Greek myth popularized by Sophocles' tragedy entitled "Oedipus Rex”. [...]

In "Enigma," the flesh and the body are always in the forefront, facing up to the naked other as a mirror image, a gateway to understanding the totality of things and ourselves, soliciting a dialectical observation that investigates authentic sensations and their formal becoming, corroborated—to the beat of layers of oil, vehement gestural brushstrokes, and dense, ethereal glazes—by the most rubicund chromatic alternations that undoubtedly define brand new concepts of both shape and space."

—Domenico de Chirico