TIMM BLANDIN FRANCE, 1987
Biographie
SUSPENDED IN TIME
His paintings exist in a liminal space where the boundaries between reality and perception dissolve, leaving behind dreamlike impressions of places and moments that feel both familiar and elusive.
Blandin’s artistic language is one of subtle paradoxes. His compositions balance precision with spontaneity, structure with fluidity, and representation with abstraction. The artist, originally trained in graphic design, has developed a visual approach that reflects both the calculated logic of digital aesthetics and the organic unpredictability of traditional painting. His works carry echoes of fragmented memories, as if each scene emerges from the mind’s shifting recollections rather than from a fixed point in time.
The landscapes he paints are not merely depictions of physical spaces; they are reinterpretations of environments shaped by emotion, memory, and perception. Blandin strips away extraneous detail, reducing his subjects to their essential forms while infusing them with a heightened chromatic sensibility. His palette vibrates with unexpected juxtapositions, where deep, saturated hues coexist with airy, translucent layers, evoking the way light and shadow interact in fleeting moments of recollection.
His figures, when present, are absorbed into their surroundings, neither fully emerging nor entirely disappearing. They exist in a space that is at once intimate and anonymous, their presence serving as a bridge between the viewer and the evocative atmosphere of the work. Rather than anchoring the composition, they become part of the fluctuating rhythm of color and form, dissolving into the environment like memories slipping between consciousness and forgetting.
Time, in Blandin’s work, does not unfold linearly but instead expands and contracts, folding in on itself like layers of an unfinished thought. His paintings invite the viewer into a contemplative state, where the act of looking becomes an act of remembering—of reconstructing a past that is both personal and collective. The shifting textures, blurred edges, and softened geometries suggest that memory itself is an evolving entity, never static, always subject to reinterpretation.
The interplay between reality and imagination is at the heart of this exhibition. Blandin does not seek to impose a definitive narrative but rather to open a space for contemplation, where each viewer can project their own emotions and experiences onto the canvas. His work reminds us that what we see is always filtered through what we feel, and that our perception of reality is inextricably tied to the intangible forces of memory and imagination.
Galerie Sept invites you to immerse yourself in Suspended in Time, a collection of works that transcend the constraints of the present moment, inviting us to linger in the in-between—a world where time slows, where light bends, and where the seen and the unseen merge into a singular, poetic vision of reality.
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