Victor Tricar
February 10th – March 19th
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For me art is liberation from my chains. My desire to understand must be detached from the requirements of everything not pertaining to its world. Art shows me the path towards free will. Further, all who search, be the quest religious, scientific or artistic, must remain humble, prudent and aware of the implicit responsibilities.
I need to pay back what art has "loaned" to me. We cannot possess art. It must be conquered, merited and treated as something sacred and rare. One must wait, never wishing to capture it. One’s soul must have suffered, for the suffering reveals our knowledge, a treasure as brilliant as the sun.
I liberate mysterious life and try to give it material harmony. One must love beauty, truth, and goodness, as it is love that unites these three aspects and colors the subtle fluids, products of our world, from which the essence of art escapes. One must be courageous and honest and realize nothing comes from outside that does not begin within.
Art reminds me that people today should take the first steps towards the spiritual, not the opposite. In Kandinsky’s, The Spiritual in Art, the idea of the artist as a transmitter of a spiritual message to his peers is developed. The profound truth of this statement resounds within me.
I paint as a child of my time who has the need to understand, to seize, to master the world that surrounds him, but also to unravel the mysteries that occupy the domain of the subtle, invisible and hidden. The artist must have one foot anchored in his period and the other engaged in the spiritual from which springs the essence of art. Through my painting, I seek a language to reconcile the eternal and the current. I am a creator of bridges.
It is for this reason that my painting is not simply the work of a painter of images. It is this research into the laws that govern my soul and spirit where the path towards art begins to engage my consciousness. The artist must welcome the mechanisms that move him to act in one way or another. Without this consciousness he is not free to create.
My work is an everyday effort to embellish my soul and spirit, as these are the subtle filters by which to express this mysterious life that is the essence of art. The artist must believe and invest himself in the spiritual because it exists. If he does not believe, he will produce only a pale imitation of truth.
In the elaboration of my artistic language I wish to respond to this call of the internal spirit to bring my contemporaries in the direction of the future rather than the past. Hope, happiness and love have no meaning if we do not have faith in what is to come. It is for this reason that art can and must be nothing other than a joy.
-Victor Tricar
BIO-
Victor Tricar was born in
VictorTricar has always held to an ideal of justice and a search for truth. He searches the world for this ideal that burns inside him. He meets others and travels, but he will never find outside the perfection of this absolute that lives inside him ….
Victor Tricar has always been painting and drawing but the true revelation didn’t happen until later in his life. After laborious years in high school, the young artist blossomed and started studying art, helped by the support of his grand-father.
After presenting his portfolio, he was accepted in 2000 and trained at highly regarded graphic art schools, including the prestigious “Académie Julian-Penninghen”, which counts amongst its students Matisse, Léger, Nolde, Mucha and others that are a part of our artistic heritage. In 2004, after graduating, he worked as a free-lance graphic artist.
In 2006, on returning from a one-year journey in
Victor Tricar describes himself as an unsatisfied artist whose search for truth burns more than ever in him. His first works are ardent and violent, like a whisper that urgently dictates to him the destiny that is to be his.
In 2007, he exhibits for the first time with three other artists in the show “Paths to the free will”. This exhibition represents the founding statement of his work.
Victor Tricar now lives in
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This painter is endowed with great talent, to not expose him to the light of all would be foolish.
-Cheick Kongo (French mixed martial artist-UFC star)
When you paint, you never cheat. You open your heart to the canvas, as passionate as you are. I admire your talent, and I would say that a real artist is an artist who touches everyone.
-Asmaa Niang (French top-ranked judoka)
Victor’s paintings are colorful and full of life—just as he is in person. I find his work deeply rooted in human emotion, and love that it celebrates life!
- Annie Mc Elwain (American photographer)
Victor is an artist in so many ways: his paintings are full of energy and life, colors and mysticism. You are drawn towards them and they urge you to find out what they mean and the story behind them. Amazing... simply said, it's great art!
-Guri Havnevik (Norwegian model and home designer)
I'm very lucky that I discovered Victor's paintings. His canvas expresses the intensity and the rage he's feeling when he paints between the abstract and the figurative. That is what is brilliant in his pieces of art: Victor paints like others who would compose a symphony. Colors and styles are perfectly mixed, and open the door to the artist's imagination. It must absolutely be seen!
-Matthieu Tribes (French movie maker and actor)
Victor’s art is a wonderful, colorful and intense journey, which drags us in a magical world, with plenty of hope. One can see Chagall and Miro in Victor's paintings. In his work, strength and joy are combined and set free a beautiful joy of living.
-Marc Goedert (French painter)
Victor's paintings touch us, with a return to the origins of humanity where the look of the candid is exalted with unusual colors. It brings us deep inside the soul of a human being, where we feel deeply positive, despite the harshness of the world. This might be avant-garde; a brush that unveils truth and is not lying.
-Michel Dupré (French fashion designer of “Dupré-Santabarbara” Maison de Haute Couture)
Victors Art is Dynamic and very colorful, bright , lights up the space. Cheerful and exciting!
-Catherine Andrews( English painter)
Victor is trying to make us share his experience of spirituality. The figures that compose the space of the canvas are translations by the improvisation of long colorful strokes, which emphasize certain values beloved by the artist, such as hope and optimism. We can notice the influence of artists such as Kandinsky, or Matisse.
-Adrien Bonneterre (French painter)