AntartiKa - Alain Carpentier 2020

AntartiKa - Alain Carpentier Vertical Format - 30 Figure (92cm x 73cm) Acrylic pencil on canvas. The flat colours are worked in the thick acrylic material. Alain Carpentier is an artist based in Brittany whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally in Germany, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands and China. Alain Carpentier's artistic expression and imagination are nourished by his numerous travels and the rich encounters that result from them. "My artistic approach? A technique that I call "The automatic line", essentially made with acrylic felt-tip pens and marked by black and white flat tints, glued materials such as zinc and leather constitute the identity of my work. White and black surfaces with repetitive lines, this writing is like a movement that does not support critical reflection. It requires the conjunction of very obsessive movements in which neither the conscience nor the will intervenes. The work I do, its profusion of signs and symbols, is an aid in art therapy work, helps concentration and the construction of the imagination. I "force" to make the effort to analyse and deconstruct what is banal.