Yatridès Spiral Pillar of Time, 65x92 cm Private collection 1982

Is it a matter of respect for the other's personality? The moral necessity of allowing everybody to be master of their own perception? The refusal to impose a ready-made interpretation? It is more than this when we are dealing with the "implicit".

It is advisable that we should first agree on what we mean by the notion of the "implicit".

But, as an explanation, Truth often confines us to a simplified discourse, to a false dialogue which may as much impoverish the one who explains as the one to whom the explanation is given.

How can one reconcile Value and Truth? GOD alone can, a God in whom one believes. YATRIDES ' confrontation with the Bible stems precisely from the implicit.

At the time of the important retrospective exhibition of the Château de la Condamine (Corenc), in 1979, the matter had been raised, with regard to his work, of Jacob 's  fight with the Angel. YATRIDES had not replied with verbal explanations, but, four years later, his reaction took the shape of a monumental triptych: three canvases in which he implicitly revealed himself to those who wished to see and hear him.

"Painter outside the tumult", as René CHAR has described him, YATRIDES has never added the spectacle of his own presence in the media to the tumult of the world. Not that he has lead a private, monastic and exemplary existence outside society. Quite the contrary! "I have created disorder in my private life so as to create order in my painting".

The specifically religious theme arises in a brutal and unexpected manner in Yatridès' work in 1963, with "Christ, Leica and Orange", a painting that is just as strange as "The Centre or Time Revealed", which dates from a year earlier and of which the painter has said :

- "I wanted to get free from the immobility to which I was confined by figurative representation. I physically moved out of the painting in search of the CENTRE from where, I sensed, TIME was bursting forth".

In "Christ, Leica and Orange", elements are brought together that will henceforth be essential. In the background a Christ, not crucified, but hanging like a corpse from a Slab, this strange object which made its appearance in YATRIDES ' universe at the end of the fifties. In the foreground, a woman dressed in dark clothing like those who haunted the luxurious and darkened apartments characteristic of the so-termed black period of his work. She is the final reporter. Her Leica, the best photographic witness there is, is irradiated by its final shot: Christ in his absolute truth. Her expression unfathomable, in a gesture of farewell and on the point of leaving the canvas, she moves forward holding out an orange. This fruit is intended to quench the thirst of he who seeks the truth. The photographer departs, as the painter has done, leaving the onlooker in an encounter with what is already the third abode.

Extracts from following documents and works :
Official Authorities : "Administrative biography"

Arthur Conte : "Yatridès master of time" SGL 04.03.1991
Sacha Bourmeyster : "Yatridès and his century" , "Yatridès the painter of the invisible reality" ,
"Yatridès, l'anti-Picasso" SGL 24.03.1994
"The Interstellars Icons" SGL 31.03.1994 - "Yatridès and the Bible" SGL 30.10.96
Monographic catalogues 1954-1993 : Exhibitions and Retrospectives Yatridès
Monographic catalogues : "International Biennials art festivals" Canada-France from 1987 to 1993 (Great Master guest
of honour -Grand Maître invité d'honneur)
Events, Schools of painting 1900-1959, 1910-1960, 1910-1965 : USA Events achievment held with works, of which Yatridès's paintings, lent by US important prominent Private Collections of the United States (See in "His work" and
in "His life" : "Bibliography")
Films, Videos, University theses : YATRIDES 's  work has fascinated film-makers, movie-directors, semiologists, among
the best of our time.
See in this website in "His life" : "Entourage" in which appear  "Jean  DELANNOY",  "Marcel  CARNE" 
famed movie Directors, film-Makers and in "His work" :
"YATRIDES - KUBRICK".

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