Michel Mousseau, time to paint

Painting? An art of time, that is to say, its work. Time: the play of absence and presence under the excess of nothing. The announcement of their meeting: the annunciation. All art is a word of annunciation, an expectation of expectation. The journey that matured this horizon took date and place in the illumination of Michel Mousseau's work. From then on, the critical relationship turns around. No analysis applies uniformly to one work and another. On the contrary, it is they who each time release the orientations of the gaze and who punctuate the approach to follow. Because of which, simultaneously, they remain out of reach, always different from what they show. The approach that lets itself be guided by this dignity will doubtless no longer be able to have an equivalent, because the modes of time themselves must, each time, be considered differently.