Ayo Gilles (Gilles Aillaud) 1928-2005
Gilles Ayo was born in Paris in 1928, where he also received art education. The artist's works difficult to determine within a style in art. His work belongs to the period-sided revival of figuration in the 60 years of the last century, the heyday of pop art and hyper-realism. Gilles Ayo worked in collaboration with the artists movement "narrative figuration" the Spaniard Eduardo Arroyo and Antonio Italian Rekalkati. He is equally well served as a draftsman, painter, theater artist, wrote poetry, full of bright lyricism. Ayo - virtuoso portraitist, but true, native of his poems, favorite characters - quadrupeds, birds, waterfowl inhabitants of sea and land. Their Ayo embodied with certain skills, followed by long years of live-work. Nobody draws so many avidly and persistently as animal artist, emphasized in the polemic fervor VA Vatagin in the notes about his favorite cause.
"Country Ayo" is divided into two unequal parts. First, a minority - is warmed by the sun expanse of Greek landscapes, all of whom once lived and worked as an artist. In another part of the "country Ayo" The sun gives way to a deathly electric lighting, warm stones covered with moss - the gray concrete, freedom - nilly. It is sad, even tragic "Zoos" artist, amounting to a huge series, work on which was stretched for many years.
Oppressive sense of "captivity of nature" is embodied in the lattices, iron fences, barbed thorns that restrict the space in a government indifference warning placards: "Please do not throw anything into the water!", "Do not feed the animals!". Especially here seem pathetic imitation of the natural landscape - the stumps trunks, shabby and dirty concrete "rocks". The only living part is the water flashing silver which are perceived as flimsy memories about losing their freedom.
It is noteworthy that very often exotic animals - elephants, monkeys, crocodiles, hippos - which further reinforces the idea of their disconnection from the mother nature.
But this cycle Ayo is not a caricature of the real European zoos. Modern zoos, including the place of honor is famed Vincennes Zoo in Paris with his masterly landscapes, reconstructions of various parts of the globe - this is important research centers, ever-widening circle of human knowledge about nature.
Images Ayo - a philosophical synthesis, a warning of how sad fate awaits natural environment, if the technology world, a world created by human hands, will not find it a common language.
... So live side by side in the works Ayo images freestyle nature of the Mediterranean and the images of "nature in captivity", the characters of ruthless attack world technology on the natural environment.
Sokolov
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