The Xippas Gallery is happy to present Yvan Salomone’s third solo exhibition. The exhibition features an ensemble of thirty-five watercolors made during the last three years.

“Eclipse… Dream: two shipping boxes, dead without their pairs of shoes. Dream: large black spots printed and placed on a bed guarded by a small barking white dog. Dream: on the stage, behind their instruments, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Broodthaers, Henri Rousseau, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec search for harmony. Dream: unending stage changes. Dream: clear dissolution of logic – four hiding two – epistemic, clinical, political, and poetic… Evaporated time swirls around an invisible axis in these night pool and paints a thick mystery, which submerges me – like the blind apnea divers, I slowly make the movements of the breast stroke…I don’t possess any other methods to try and sense different qualities, the depth, or the constraining viscosity. To catch my breath and shore up my reserve, I place in front of me that which I don’t completely draw: a group of boxes on stilts originally covered with monstrous and pathetic logos; they are dressed and scraped of militant objects. I rub, I erase, and I withdraw from this world of brutal signs. Expulsed hermit? Printed differently, not retracing them I advance towards six continents on legs, speechless… now resplendent in their refusal to be informed: lakeside civilization. Their skin shines free of tattoos! Calmness can unfold! Often I speak of echoes, but today it is of stilts: their rejections place that one… diffuse and moving. The suspended group plunges their stakes into the material of metaphoric glue: polluted sea, tape. In the reality of perspective, the approach, the surface on which the ensemble rests is only an ordinary street scene, maybe more probable. Here I nurse my retreat that offers speechlessness as a declaration: my silence is that of tomorrow! Project of secluded and vigilant patterns… Reflections and rejections mingle here where the image, once again, finds diversion in its ellipsis.”