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Deleuze tells us that painting is unhinged since it has no model to represent and no story to tell. From then on, it has two possible ways to escape from the figurative: towards pure form by abstraction; or towards the purely figurative (by extraction or isolation). If the painter tends towards the figure, it will be to oppose the figurative to the figurative. It is a matter of following the path of sensation. And of course to strive again and again to record the fact. To be inside the canvas and to mark this territory.

José Dean works in this direction. Thus an autonomous painting is born, …