Cézanne, get out of that body!
huile sur toile, 50×50 cm
Certainly, USB drives did not exist in the time of the undisputed master of Modern Art, but constructing a coherent pictorial space, detached from geometric space yet filled with a doubled presence expressed simultaneously—both that of the motif and that of the painting—is, for me, the whole body of Cézanne. This morning, the brilliant grumpy man from Aix-en-Provence forced my hand; I have no other hypothesis to offer. Come on, Cézanne, get out of that body!
