François OTTE Painter of Movement
Design & production of the video Hervé GODREUIL, 3ème Œil / CARRE AMELOT, La Rochelle, mai 2000
François OTTE is an Artist-painter. He settled in Saint -Rémy-de-Provence from 1992-2001 then moved between the south of France to Sète – Montpellier and Mauritius with his wife Katie OTTE till 2021.His work focusses on the representation of moving objects. When a character is walking, it’s not only a body moving but all points of this character moving along a continuous line that creates his Space-Time. All those lines constitute a suit of colored bands carrying energies. François OTTE calls it « the dynamic trace ».The dynamics of matter in the midst of energies : this is my work as an Artist and as a Painter. Workshop, paint, tools, techniques, everything contributes to the setting and working of this Space-Time. But it is first and foremost a permanent equilibrium that reveals a dynamic and unreachable threshold where my work independently suffices and signs for itself. This conscience of being represents our own very nature but also nature at large and defines my painting that becomes hence existentialist in nature. Existence of the human being, of the animal, vegetal, mineral, corpuscular in every single physical state of matter : gas, liquid, solid, ion, which moves revealed by the spectrum of light, making out lines and circles in coloured bands and expressing their ghostly crossing through life for our own perception; this crossing however really happens for the Space-Time. They are like living ribbons : this is what I call the dynamic trace. I walk, climb up a staircase, jump down, roll forward …………… walk again ……………. This is how life goes. From the black hole with its singularity, to the big-bang towards the cosmos and its dreamy landscapes, from stars to nebula until reaching the flower, the leaf, the water, the sky, the bird and our mountains where rivers stream down towards the ocean ; my painting becomes a reflection of this transformation and reflects too the way in which we see our wonderful and extroardinary world.