The exhibition gathers important works the artist has been curating and studying for the past 33 years for his project on Eastern & Western oil paintings and texture restoration. Alixe rescued these original works from the XVIIIe & XIXe century from auction houses the same way he would have strolled along memories from these ancient times. The dilapidated paintings were carefully cleaned, restored and reframed on new canvases to be then recreated with a modern twist.It took the artist ten years to finalize 18 paintings for this collection, each of them commemorating the “stranded” & “paused” conditions of our current time & space and disrupting the ancient notion of consumable beauty, because today beauty is now ruled by the devil.

Misplaced time & overlapping space both awaken dialogues between the consciousness and subconsciousness and evoke communication among the souls in two different worlds. They are mutually echoing, depending and conflicting with one another.
Through the transition from classic realism to post-expressionism, these paintings create now a form of gaze between souls. They revealed the “loneliness” and “inexplicability” of the anonymous authors, showing & changing their differences in identities, blurring genders and conflicting ideologies.The conflicts, anxieties and hopes within cultures are conveyed via the repair, deconstruction and reconstruction of historical images. It reflects a sort of “abruptness” in the floating life between the East & the West. An ambiguous mood results from the transcultural life and responds to the main theme of the “Anti-Retro Art” exhibition, it created situational contrasts. The non-standardized and subversive portraits express a “metaphorical image of modernity”.