Robert Cadot
PAINTER
Contemporary symbolist
approach
ARTISTIC PROFILE
Artist since 1975, I achieved hundreds of canvases and many
exhibitions done solo and in a group, in Quebec and abroad.
Among the main projects realized so far are:
- The Flying Glasses
(1982-1985), exploration of the transparency of a surreal Universe.
- Tarokado (1986-1990),
twenty-two large canvasses and fifty six drawings depicting a new
contemporary way to conceive the Tarot theme.
- The Secret of the Island
(1992-1995), a series of twenty artworks of irregular shapes bringing a
concept created around the idea of islands… A ticket to a travel in the
Universe of myths and legends.
- The Secret Doors
(1995-2000), architectural visual language integrating small mechanical
pieces depicting interactivity of elements.
- Time will tell
(2000-2003), rolled canvasses with papyrus extremities.
- Straight Curves, a study
of transparency and reflection.
- Encounter (2003-2007), a
journey revisiting masterpieces of the History of Art, creating
surrealistic encounters between Great Masters. Here Van Gogh takes a
stroll in the Totsuka station of Hiroshige, Goya prefigures Picasso,
Matisse visits Vermeer, Frida Kahlo is close to Bonnard, and Leonardo da
Vinci befriends Andy Warhol… While presenting a new look created first
for the pleasure of the imaginary, these pieces also track classical
elements, influences, similarities and differences in essence, and that
can be looked upon with an entirely different vision.
My actual projects, Flower pots,
whirls and other extravagances (since 2008) and Tribute to ukiyo-e (since 2008),
explore for the first the movement of fluids in space and the glance at
the inner feelings of the flowers in this whirlwind, while the later
seeks to pay homage to this flowing and ephemeral world’s evocation as
ukiyo-e’s masters knew how to elaborate it.
A thread undoubtedly connects all these projects: a firm intention to
open a window on timelessness. Fluid plans, often times fanciful
figures, terra incognita, sometimes random geometry thus live in my
surfaces like elements of calculations on a board made by
hypotheses.
(For the latest version of the website, with more recent projects
and images, see it’s french
version)