Clean Fresh Glamor

The notion of the spectrum seems essential to understanding the work of young painter Julien Heintz, who has just graduated from the Beaux-Arts and 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 as singular as they are universal. These faces, painted in close-up, appear to be frozen in time and space. Their features seem on the verge of disappearing, absorbed by the canvas.