Anselme Selosse, a Grand of Champagne
huile sur toile, 100×100 cm
The other-same, that is his creed. His shadow is all in the vineyard, summer and winter, and he barely leans against the effervescence (from the corner of the wall on his left). Anselme Selosse is a meditative winemaker. His wines do not age, they meditate like him. Because his viticulture is coupled with a living thought in the vineyard and in the cellar right up to the glass. Firstly, there is non-action. Respect and listening to nature, to the other. The years pass and the other-same imposes itself with age. The other-same? The management is the same but the other acts on me, or agitates me if you will. I cannot stand idly by in the face of the world as it is!… I have learned to love it, to listen to it, it must be guided to the best. Start by caring for this Champagne nature so that it gives usits effervescence. Then elevate it to the taste buds to feed the mind. But the other-same, says the father, is also Guillaume, the son… The other-same, for the painter, is’ nt it the principle of figuration?