Clean Fresh Glamor

The notion of the spectrum seems essential to understand the work of this young painter, Julien Heintz, who has just graduated from the Beaux Arts of Paris 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 makes up 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.