English traduction by Erik Valdes

Drawing and Painting Mix
Yannig Guillevic

The French painter will expose his work December 1st in the Center for the Arts

Mixtures of faith and art shaped in simple lines, they decorate a sacred
space in which contemporary art serves as an expression of the spirit. Thus are the instant engravings of Guillevic. The altar of the Church of Notre Dame de la Clarté, or Our Lady of the Clarity, in Larmor Plage, in eastern France shows off, since April of 1999, eight drawings/paintings in the altar and six paintings in the "Place of the word" with the novel technique of almost instant drying that the French painter discovered by accident and of which he will offer a sample the next 1st of December in the Center of the Arts of the University of Sonora.

"The 'marrón Guillevic' takes a minute, or maybe a minute ten seconds to be dried and you have that much time to paint the complete work", explained Yannig Guillevic. But although the technique has an almost instant drying time, the engravings in the Church of Notre Dame de La Clarté are works of five months of preparation. Preparation that is as much spiritual as it is of technique and making sketches. "There were many previous sketches", expressed the artist, "it is that time becomes timeless when I am working, that is to say that it may take me a minute to complete something, but it is a very intense process, I need to be ready internally to be able to express myself, this requires a great deal of meditation".

"This work is very important", he indicated. "It was carried out in a
church that is an historic place yet the work is contemporary art and is
based on the realist idea of the symbiosis of art and the sacred. I have
therefore studied deeply the exterior and interior space of this church".
"The drawings/paintings are about the four evangelists, the four at the
front of the table, two on each side", described the founding member of French Ideorealism. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are revealed in simple spontaneous lines that provide a path to the devotion of the four men that wrote the history of Christ on Earth. "Matthew has an open book in his hands, the Gospel, under his right foot is a bag of money that symbolizes the spiritual victory over the material. Also, before being an apostle, Matthew was a tax collector", informed Guillevic. "The Gospel according to Mark is also shown in the work", he indicated. An angel over him that has a cross with a banderole that signifies the intersection of the spiritual world with the earthly world and with the aid of a messenger offers the divine message "which prepares the road before you". The gospel according to Luke is shown open lying on a table, and an angel accompanies it. Luke is presenting the first portrait of the Virgin Mary, in his left hand he has brushes, since he was the patron saint of the painters in the Middle Ages.

"John the apostle has an open book in the hand. Near him there are two fish and a boat that symbolize Jesus Christ and the Church", commented the painter. The natural technique, "The marrón Guillevic",
has a special particularity, drying in less than one minute and a half, and being that in that time the work must be finished, this forces the creator to have great spiritual concentration.

"This technique came about because of an accident at the shop. It was a very hard winter and all the liquids were frozen, I woke with a burning desire to work and from all the frozen products came a very strong extract. It was a mixture of a product of nutmeg that is utilized by engravers, flour and other products", revealed the French painter. "This is neither drawing nor painting, but both", he declared, "since in the drawing of lines we can see it and it always seeks perfection and the paint is the material that gives the light". "The light and the shadows come out of the darkness as a chaos that we can see in nature", he finished.