Spherical moods

A woman’s face, eyes downcast, emerges from a swirl of concentric circles which intersect, bringing forth a kaleidoscope of atonal shapes and colors, brown, blue, green, yellow. To evoke the strange experience of melancholy – today we would speak of depression – the Franco-Polish artist Boleslas Biegas uses this technique that he has patiently developed, as a snub to the angular cubists.

Coming to settle in Paris, this self-taught painter, sculptor and writer became known from 1918 for the singularity of his portraits highlighted by an interlacing of spheres. A testimony to his sensitivity to the spiritual quests of his time, made up of cosmic impulses and esoteric quests. He is thus an original representative of the symbolist movement which developed at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in Europe, as an implicit protest against the world of machines and money of the ongoing industrial revolution.

Spherical moods

Melancholy testifies to resistance to a world that moves too fast, too strong, too far, to honor the flashes of the spirit and the impulses of the interior life. Biegas himself carries the still open wound of losing his parents and a brother during his childhood. Enough to fuel the whirlwind of emotions that he had to learn to welcome throughout his existence. An existence transfigured by his creative gaze on beings.