This is a person of exceptional integrity.
Always on the cutting edge, his art is without concession, combining
risk-taking and innovation.
Although of classical style, his paintings contain graphic passages,
the typography serving as a pictorial language.
This erudite alchemist guards a pronounced intuition, blending refined
form, unified tonalities and loose graphics, rigorous composition
and a predilection for the ambiances of light and shadow.
The presence of a woman therein is essential—her role
primordial.
The esthetic vocabulary is all achieved through suggestion, the
unspoken unveils a part of idealized eroticism, the veil reinforces
this idea of eroticism of the human form.
The negative space is not composed haphazardly; the ensemble of
background and subject recounts the same story.
Deric’s paintings combine strength and suppleness, wherein
one finds his Russian roots, the influence of icons, the
perspective. They invite us towards the imaginary universes
wherein blend references to Greco-Roman mythology, Michael Angelo,
Leonardo de Vinci or Egon Schiele in his poses.
Is Deric therefore outside of the times? Unlimited by time,
yes, certainly, dated, certainly not…
Equally balancing power and precision in his drawings allows ample
place for developing cross-hatching. Without abusing
contrast, the character of light is uniquely his own and an education
in itself.
His nude on black background, while minimal, is yet of great intensity.
Deric is a guardian of bygone values, a real artist in a world where
everything is regulated, urgent, approximate and consumable.
More than a sure value, Deric is an éclat in a world of
darkness and gloom.
text :T. Moreau
photo:N. Agapova
