Dresses, flowers and bees. Didier Hagège at Pascal Polar.

A week before the end of the exhibition, I had the possibility of enjoying the work and the kindness of Didier Hagège at Pascal Polar Gallery. A look into daily life, a careful process of collecting, organizing and mixing objects and memories. A sharp dialoge with intimacy.

In this exhibition Didier shows a series developed during almost four years of paintings based on dresses of his wife. Flowers, bees, books, ink… Layers one over the other, like seconds in our life, full of experiences, "souvenirs", smells… the stamp of the personal.

Surely, each element has a symbology for Didier, a meaning. Surely, that meaning is not transferable. Surely it is so personal, we can only gess it. But just let's stay in front of the work, just listening, letting it talk. And then, little by little, our own memories and experiences will make their own work. A soft wisper will announce its melody…

Pascal Polar says:
"When confronted by painting, there is always the matter of the gesture and the origins of what this gesture produces which is placed before my gaze, my sensitivity, my desire to look or discover. Between collage, painting and engraving, using the three techniques in a subtle super-imposition, Didier Hagège again allows me to pursue my search for artists who, far from passing fads and the noisy consequences of advertising chat in which the work is reduced to a process of sociological marketing, attempt to show through their own gestures a reality which ultimately has neither meaning nor message."

For more information have a look at Pascal Polar site

DIDIER HAGEGE
"ROBES - DRESSES"
11 November 2006 until 7 January 2007
Chaussée de Charleroi 108
1060 Bruxelles 
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