Cache Cache d’enfants 2013

Aboudia made "Cache Cache d’enfants" with what looks like acrylic and crayon, maybe oil stick, on a big canvas. It's just full of scrawls and doodles. The paint is put down fast, furious, and drippy. I feel like I'm looking at a cityscape through the eyes of a child, and I feel like I'm behind their eyes as they are trying to figure things out. The color is layered, scratched back, like a palimpsest or a wall full of graffiti. A tangle of marks compete for attention and build up a surface that's raw. You see all these repeated forms, boxy shapes that resemble buildings, faces, vehicles all stacked on top of each other. It makes you think of Dubuffet, Basquiat, maybe Cy Twombly. You can tell he has looked at other painters, but he has his own energy, a kind of manic mark-making that makes you want to keep looking. That’s what painting is all about, an ongoing exchange of ideas across time!