
Julien Saudubray (1985, Paris) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Julien Saudubray
Julien Saudubray graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012, the artist has since exhibited in France, England, Italy and Belgium.
After having experimented with what he calls the mobility of painting and its multiple applications, Julien Saudubray now synthesizes his experiments in a practice he defines as mechanistic. By reducing subjectivity to a minimum through the methodical application of layers of colour on the wall or paper, he evacuates the subject from the painting to reveal its internal structure. From the reduction of the latter to an arbitrary and repetitive action, sweeping, sanding, erasing, adding, paintings emerge as catches between two times, almost resembling bad digital prints, and which perpetually replay their possibility of success. With each brushstroke I oscillate between ecstasy and boredom, observing myself painting like an absurd machine programmed on a Beckettian formula: "To miss more, to miss better."
Biography
Selected Works

Julien Saudubray
Study #3
2021
oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Julien Saudubray
Study #2
2021
oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Julien Saudubray
Study #1
2021
oil on canvas
50 x 60 cm

Julien Saudubray
Watching #41
2021
oil and pastel on canvas
162 x 130 cm

Julien Saudubray
Watching #38
2021
oil and pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm

Julien Saudubray
Watching #39
2021
oil and pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm

Julien Saudubray
Watching #34
2021
oil and pastel on canvas
200 x 160 cm

Julien Saudubray
sculpture #3
2021
sculpture #3, 2021, Oil and, dry pastel on wood
13 x 31 x 2,5 cm

Julien Saudubray
watching #15
2021
watching #15, 2021, Oil and dry Pastel on canvas
160 x 200 cm

Julien Saudubray
watching #08
2021
watching #08, 2021, Oil and dry Pastel on canvas
160 x 200 cm

Julien Saudubray
watching #17
2021
watching #17, 2021, Oil and dry Pastel on canvas
146 x 97 cm
