Pascal - Untitled

The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge resulted in a total rejection of any visual language, which led to the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to gestural elements, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the materials from which their works are composed. Pascal's Informal aesthetic revolves around so-called "nuclear painting," the desire of a group of artists to reconstruct, on the medium of their artwork, a nuclear landscape. Thus, drawing on the Spatialist poetics regarding the perception of energies in the atmosphere, nuclear artists like Sergio Dangelo focused their attention on the existence and movement of atomic particles.

In this painting, Pascal's "nuclearism" gives way to a more profoundly perceptive exercise. The artist begins by acquiring sensory data and reworks it according to his highly personal sensibility. Thus, the landscape almost definitively loses all contact with phenomenal reality, translating into a pure transposition of matter and gesture. Indeed, Pascal seeks to capture the impression of the reality he wishes to describe, but this leads him to completely disintegrate form and translate his perception directly into pictorial gesture. In this painting, the artist is able to create a chromatic material that seems alive, dynamic, and constantly evolving. In the intensity of colors that merge into a living organism, existence pulsates in bright, sudden flashes.

The artist Pascal stands out for his highly experimental pictorial production. His poetics move between abstraction and informal art, but much of his work draws on the "Nuclear Painting" movement.

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