![]() ![]() They show faces as much as they show lines, circles and other geometric forms. In fact, all of his drawings are abstractions. In all of the exhibited works, deformation, or the creation of forms from other forms, plays a role, even if occasionally Lynch tries to be fully Abstractionist. The drawings were done by turns - and sometimes simultaneously - in ballpoint pen, marker, crayon and watercolour. In the first room, the walls are covered with Lynch's "interferences." These drawings are transformations of the world as we know it: drawings appear on napkins, matchbooks, notebook pages, newspapers and screenplay front covers (a pencil-drawn whale on the first episode text of Twin Peaks, for example). ![]() Chandès searched the artist's personal archives and found, for example, the more than 500 drawings that open the show. The exhibition grew out of an invitation from Fondation Cartier's director, Hervé Chandès, who spent months visiting Lynch in Los Angeles, California. As a whole, the show creates a portrait of the artist's obsession with the possibilities of transformation (the title "filmmaker" appears to be no longer enough for him). A collection of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures has been rounded up for The Air is on Fire, on view from 3 March until at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Lynch's life seems to be a series of transformations as well. Clearly, David Lynch attempts to transform the world for his characters and for viewers of his works. (2001) and an actress becomes her character, who becomes the true person that inspired her creation, and then becomes the actress again in Lynch's latest film, Inland Empire (2006). In later films, a man becomes another man in The Lost Highway (1997) a woman becomes another woman in The Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. The theme was evident in Lynch's early films, for example, a human who is barely considered to be “human” as his body is deformed in The Elephant Man (1980), and a baby whose shape does not resemble a recently born child in Lynch's first feature film, Eraserhead (1977). Beginning with his early works, the characters in Lynch's films are undergoing some sort of transformation. The Deformation Man: David Lynch's Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosisįondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Parisĭavid Lynch's productions are guided by the theme of metamorphosis. ![]()
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