André PONCE

"Bitternes and wish"

To be honest, i must say i don't know much about painting. So when André Ponce asked me to write a few lines about his own painting, it wasn't an easy challenge to accept, but it was an attractive one.
First his pictures have titles just like novels and poems. They aren't called "oil on wood" or "installation", they are named The greasy pole woman, pitiable Pierrot or A window over winter, they mix heat with cold, moderation with drapery, play of lights and drapery lines. His paintings are both dark and gleaming.
If you are a carefull look at them you can percive touches of live, things, simple elements, ofen fire, sometimes lead, nearly always blood and lymph, ice, seaweeds and bodies. Feelings of bitterunfullfilled expectations are intimately mingled with desire.
And that is the purpose, if not the mission of any artist and André Ponce is particularly clever at it: nenturing to create something from madness.

Remo Gary