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The Artist's Novel
L'odeur de la viande, 2015
Literary synopsis
In the same way that the child turns, from one second to the next one, from joy to melancholy, Gregory Forstner tries to formulate the complexity of a sensation in a synthetic image. He doesn't seek to issue a critique, an opinion or to impose a moral in his work; the space of the canvas, like that of writing, is not such a place. Morality would reduce its impact and scope. Forstner's ambition is to achieve a raw, thrilling, irreducible, classical object from sophisticated means.
The truth is unkown. Forstner's way of approaching the world taking into account its absurdity is to be interpreted from his origins: as a (banal) curse from which, probably, he became an artist.
Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice
L'odeur de la viande is part of a wider project about life – which is related to Forstner's artistic practice.
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