Sève Favre Switzerland

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I am an artist and art historian of Swiss and Belgian origin. I taught for several years Plastic Arts and Art History. Now, I am fully devoted to the creation as well as the promotion of my artistic work in Switzerland and internationally. I have focused my research on overcomming the classical border between an artwork and the viewer. This desire gave rise to my "intervariactive" artworks.

In my artworks, I concentrate on transcending the classical boundary between the work of art and the viewer. I invite the spectator to create from my work. My goal is to enable him to understand the research and questioning that an artist asks himself during the process of experimentation and creation. This will has given birth, since 2005, to my "intervariactive" works.

My works are mostly built on canvas because it is a classic medium. Among the materials I prefer, paper occupies an important place because it is flexible and part of a vast tradition. The choice of techniques is varied; however, I have a predilection for mixed media processes. I hope that the enjoyment of my works of art will be intimate, tactile, and flirt with the ephemeral; this allows the spect-actor to confront a new appreciation of time, and the fleeting nature of what surrounds us. The spectator can thus modify the work by touching, revealing, modifying the painting.

Do we want to hide or close ? show or open ? The work that emerges from the encounter between my work and the viewer is plural. My works of art thus become personal, variable, changing, permanently reversible and therefore multiple. The key words that support my concept being interaction, variation, activity. Each painting, although unique, contains several paintings because each modification made by the spectator induces a new work. This is why some paintings are compared with their combinatorial mathematical calculation so that the viewer realizes the multiple component of a work of art.

This artistic concept is continued in the #intervariactifproject, where visitors to my exhibitions share the result of their interaction with my work on social networks, the place par excellence of self-exhibition and which questions the limits of the visible, the known. In addition, there are, on my website, for some of my works, interactive virtual duplicates with which Internet users can create a composition and then participate in the #interagisproject whose aim is to question our tactile relationship between the real and the virtual.

Note: The photographs of the following works represent a possible variation among the many possibilities that can be organized with a work.