I started to swim in delicious water of art thanks to photography.
Always open and curious about my similar, approaching me gradually and
précautionneusement, I tried to seize their images with my
apparatus.
Then, bolder, I laid out them a such director in order to surprise
their reactions on the film.
In 1980, it is the same way that I followed with painting:
I placed in a selected decoration of the interchangeable characters.
" Nik paints humble people – without
lyricism, without
irony but with an infinite respect and immense tenderness.
His artistic
expression is unpretentious but powerful, marked by an effective use of
means.
What we see are neither soulless prototypes nor simply portraits of
individual
Basques.
If you change the background you are confronted with representations
of eternal reality.
Joy is never free from sadness in these paintings which can
be at the same time serene and cheerful.
The loneliness of these characters
points to the painful awareness of human ambivalence."
Claude
Eloi
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