Surrealist painters: the egg. Desclez's work is like a philosophical fairy tale in which
his ovoid characters reveal human emotions in their most basic forms. Desclez's use
of life. His egg-shaped creatures seem to be divined
from the recesses of the human psyche, enacting the
drama of birth and death, connection and entangle-
ment, fear and joy. Desclez's works are filled
with ironic whimsy and self-aware symbolism; he
engages our imaginations to juxtapose the absurdity
of existence with the necessity of creation.
contrasts with his lyrical subject. By using subtle
earth tones, Desclez seeks to draw the viewer's
attention to the shape itself, rather than elicit
a reaction to color. When he does use color, as in his painting, "The Red Egg," the
color itself becomes the medium to express representative meaning. In works such as
"Ovoid No. 3" color plays a minor role in the conceit of the painting and the viewer's
eye instead is drawn to the repeating oval shapes of the egg-like creature, the infinite
repetition of the oval pattern implying the eternal occurrence of birth and re-birth.
Academie des Beaux-Arts de Mons in Belgium. Before his residence at Agora Gallery,
Desclez exhibited his work in Montreal, Quebec. -Alison Rogers