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| Rene Laubies |
The "naturalist non-figurative" abstract impressions of René Laubiès, spiritual tête of "nuagisme," vague appellation engendered by his critics ignoring too much exteriorized plasmas wind-blown ash over arid terrains anonymous transparencies of loosened stain from torrid earthen wall.
Light of quiescent colour (his tableaux) shade without tension toneless shade: texturous shade of warmth rubbed patchy under fine-scratch brushings sun-blanched mauve.
"Just chase away the thoughts from your mind," he said at Puri, with subtle modulations of gait and laugh. Culminating issuance of Modernist trends since ancient Chinese Tang.
Odorous strains of fecund terseness disarming in their paucity stoic sheer with each new tablet out-flanking its precursor pure abstraction retaining no interpreters inwardly comporting devoid of gnostic footnote ramps unsolicitous precipitating ends....
Wintering in Palakunnu village stunning amazing salubrious calm alert cessative tinctures of diluted jissom dried peeling in morning-fresh sun.
Spring exhibitions in Milan and Paris then back through the Greater and Lesser Sundas, through hunger and loss, tabulation and thirst, through patterned stains of sweat-laced breezes. Hiking off alone when the turpentine is finished, transparently alive in a pan-Islamic silence.
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"On Laubies's Work," 1990, (early draft) originally published in René Laubiès, Octobre-Novembre 1990 [exhibition catalogue], Gallery Michel Broomhead, Paris; Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de Mira Impression à Libourne, Conception: Canovas Belchi.See Nuagisme / Cloudism.
