Article: Dialogues - Joseph Faloughi at the gallery Surface Libre.

He was convinced that a work of art is created before being a canvas or a plastic fabric of some sort…. He had acquired all the information that his sensitive and pure soul employed, expressing his feelings, ideas, conceptions, his own personal world with its far away from rich and humanized horizons.

Joseph Faloughi lives his work and the overflow of emotions shining from the paintings proves this. This silent being with the ability to listen, to meditate and feel intensely his paintings, the expression of his agitated and tormented soul….. He is like a storm brewing under the calm waters waiting to explode on a palette with marvelous colors.

At Surface Libre, we have a selection of these last two years’ work.

Patterns, shapes, colors, movement, space….create unity. They are inseparable. Shapes that are not always concrete leave in our mind the impression originated by the first ideas.
Joseph Faloughi does not exhibit much, but paint draws and work a lot. He wishes to tell us with his recent paintings about the stamp of his soul, extending this impression to reach his poetic side…. A work without a soul is a mediocre senseless thing which is not the case with Faloughi’s art. Restlessly, obstinately, he studies nature and dissects it. He investigates about reality simplifying and expressing his own nature and transforming the latter into abstract, dynamic, living forms….

Faloughi expresses the notion of Clair-obscure, cherished by artists for centuries by colorful shades, complementary angles, juxtapositions, styles, expressions... 
Joseph knows by heart pictorial secrets that he uses with subtleness to create an atmosphere born from his unconscious and inspiring the consciousness of the spectator who judges, observes, feels…criticizes in the same time.

He carries with him the atmosphere in his paintings and we live it too. It talks to us, it attracts our eyes, and often creates in us this attitude that I call “emotion”.
Joseph Faloughi is so calm and serene when we see him at first but he paints with love, passion, but he has fire smoldering inside of him, the fire of his love for the earth, of mankind, of life,.. and the fire of artistic creation.

He lives his subjects, meaning his works. He molds them within a game between the eye, the soul, the spirit and the hand…. Like the baker with his dough…

With his rich colors and substances flowing and circulating on the canvass to create a new image of the universe, opening doors and horizons adequate to his contemporary conceptions.
Lights originating from the sun are here, on the cymatium of Surface Libre, a multitude of lights sparkling from everywhere end colliding, burning the spectator’s soul.

Today, in this exhibit, Joseph Faloughi is fully mature. He reveals his own personality, expressing his identity with great skill - a personel style, finding all his “moi”.

This is a period of maturity.

The exhibit in Surface Libre is the living proof of that.

Joseph Matar - Avril 06

Faloughi ou l’écho du regard

Un langage plastique de grande subtilité évoluant tantôt vers un univers où la couleur se mêle à la musique afin de faire de la toile une symphonie, tantôt la phrase colorée se métamorphose en poème. L’irréel, le tachisme prend une nouvelle forme alphabétique et chromatique et nous parle permettant ainsi à Joseph Faloughi de nous communiquer ses rêves, ses évasions, sa vision, les battements de son cœur, ses convictions, l’élan de son âme…

Un dialogue fleuri se manifeste en chaque touche, des mauves aux bleues, des tons propres et lumineux, un point rougeâtre, un accent orangé se complétent par des verts nuageux, perdues dans l’univers à deux dimensions. Des matières riches et empâtées se diluant l’une dans l’autre ou s’harmonisant. Un maîtrise du savoir, une clarté du rendue.

Le vocabulaire personnel de Faloughi riche et varié informel et présent, chaud et vivant, silencieux, peu bavard, calme et ombrageux,… le tout est simplifié, vivant et uni.

Une répétition qui se perd en notre vision comme un écho enivrant qui se perd en nos âmes.
Pour saisir ce qui est vécu dans l’art, il faut regarder ce processus intérieur et intime qui se déroule profondément dans l’âme de l’artiste et d’où surgit l’œuvre.

L’artiste sent en lui ce qui engendre ce besoin, cette atmosphère de sensibilité, de vie, des états variés de l’être, cette vision d’un monde nouveau correspond aux besoins spirituels de l’artiste créateur (telle la fleur qui, chez Beaudelaire s’évapore ainsi qu’un encensoir devant l’ostensoir du soleil couchant).

Faloughi, artiste ambitieux cherche en permanence à se dépasser, explorant des domaines nouveaux en ses recherches, il médite son œuvre, la pense, la sent, la vit et la reprend sous des angles variés afin de satisfaire curiosité et plaisir, connaissances et expériences laissant son empreinte nous plonger dans l’émotion sur les cimaises de la galerie Surface Libre. L’irréel et l’abstrait concrétisent un aspect de notre art contemporain qui se veut toujours ‘in’, ‘new age’, ‘look’…

Dans ses phrases musicales, là où je n’ai d’abord vu que taches accumulées et diversifiées à plaisir, je vois un mouvement d’ensemble s’élancer d’un obscur inquiétant vers une plage de couleurs chaudes, claires, une foule avide, qui se précipite tendue vers une délivrance espérée.

Joseph Matar