Clean Fresh Glamour

The notion of spectrum seems essential to understanding the work of the young painter, Julien Heintz, a recent graduate of the Beaux-Arts and having recently joined the pal Project gallery. The spectrum, at once an evanescent apparition, an indexical form, and a link between different temporalities, invites the viewer to decode in Heintz's canvases what forms a face, whose features are both singular and universal. These faces, painted in close-up, appear as if frozen in a space-time. Their features seem on the verge of disappearing, absorbed by the canvas.