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The genetic portaits

Xavier Moehr is the one of the few contemporary artists connected to an artistic revolution brushing traditional representations of reality. In creating a new artistic language he is one of the pillars to the transformation of consciousness and art communication in this beginning of the new millennium.
Far from fantasy and based on the most recent scientific discoveries, comparisons between art and genetics already exist in the United States where artists and top scientists spontaneously come together on common university grounds.
In France this is a premiere. But as the osmoses between the twelfth century glass-worker and the alchemist, creating the eternal stained-glass windows we well know, today such advanced research between art and genetics will uncover new meaning for the mutation of contemporary art.

To summarize Moehr’s point:
-/ These paintings propose a new definition of human identity.
Revolutionizing the topic, Moehr states that tomorrow’s identification card is not to be found in psychological projections or within social categories but in the genes. Unique to each of us, the whole of our identity is contained in the genome. At a first glance these paintings look identical, but they are all different.
Throughout history masters have agreed that each individual responds to a special “note”, and that throughout the entire universe, none is identical .
Just as a music score with cut sequences, Xavier Moehr transcribes an aspect of this special note.
-/ Looking at these paintings, the observer looses his boundaries while facing this both real and anciently virtual new language.
Perceptible to the human eye thanks to the machine, the limits of virtuality are pushed back as an overlap of the world and its’ components lead us to unicity.
Debate between reality and virtuality becomes history when meeting and melting with this direct representation of Life.
-/ In a new approach to our perceptions of the insides and hidden dimensions of life, “Each image has a destiny of growth”, wrote Bachelard. These sequences of the infinitely small, computer-processed by the biologist, perfectly obey to this statement.
The paintings of Xavier Moehr expand our ranges of perception beyond common reality and into the unattainable. Amidst artistic expression and scientific imagery, and beyond an introduction to a new portrait art, Xavier Moehr’s art finds an educative function that has often been used throughout art history.

Martine Pasquet, Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, trad : V.Blondel

“Portraits génétiques” Acrylique sur toile - 195 cm x 97 cm - 1997

yasumasa morimura portrait

“yasumasa morimura” Acrylique sur toile 195 cm x 97 cm - 1998

portrait nakamura keiji

“nakamura keiji” Acrylique sur toile 195 cm x 97 cm - 1998