Confession cannibale ou le festin interdite 1992

Jean Miotte made "Confession cannibale ou le festin interdite" in 1992 using acrylic on canvas; it’s like watching a painter think out loud. The strokes aren't timid; they slash and dive, creating this whirlwind of color and form. There’s a rawness to the application, the paint laid down with varying pressure, now thick, now thin, almost like he’s wrestling with the canvas. The palette is bold – reds, blacks, blues – but they don’t sit politely next to each other. Instead, they collide, mix, and sometimes even seem to devour each other, which, given the title, is maybe the point. Look at the frenetic energy of the black marks cutting through the white space; they have this wild, untamed quality that reminds me of de Kooning's more chaotic moments. Miotte is having a conversation with the canvas, and by extension, with us about how meaning emerges from chaos. Art's not about answers; it's about the questions we dare to ask.