"L' Eau sèche" | "Dry Water" is a documentary film about the painter Jean-Olivier Hucleux.
This film allows us to see the world through the eyes of Jean-Olivier Hucleux, a discreet and « cult » artist worshipped by collectors and museums of modern art. His artwork, filled with striking portraits embodied in planeness, imposes the miracle of human presence. Which paths will he take to pull this presence out of nothingness ? Which mysteries of the universe has he grasped to convince us with such clarity that the infinitely small and the infinitely big are the same? « Dry water » answers these questions thanks to the friendly complicity between the artist and the director.
This film allows us to see the world through the eyes of Jean-Olivier Hucleux, a discreet and « cult » artist worshipped by collectors and museums of modern art. His artwork, filled with striking portraits embodied in planeness, imposes the miracle of human presence. Which paths will he take to pull this presence out of nothingness ? Which mysteries of the universe has he grasped to convince us with such clarity that the infinitely small and the infinitely big are the same? « Dry water » answers these questions thanks to the friendly complicity between the artist and the director.
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| Hucleux painting a "Square" |
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| "Les Jumelles" detail |
Extract 1 : Francis Bacon’s portrait.
I make a portrait of the square. My iceberg’s memory is on fire. I weld. Rough symmetry. Time is wearing. My crossroads has become dry and reduced itself to ashes. A machine to forget small sorrows. What I produce is millions of years’ old.
Extract 2 : Notebooks
Drawing is a reflection of what is the most immaterial in us.
Extract 3 : The Square
I produce these large drawings of « deprogrammation » on a square canvas. These are not really portraits, but they are portraits of a more abstract, intimate and revealing types.
A production “les films d'Ici”Agathe Berman
