On Deleuze, sensation and rhythm

Painting can escape figurativity in two different ways: through abstraction (the 'pure' form) or the 'figural' (extraction and isolation of the figure).

Figurative painting (representation) implies a relation between images, a narrative relation between different illustrative figures, a story. Isolation breaks with representation, avoids illustration and liberates the figure. The only 'nexus' between figures is intense.

The surface of the canvas is virtually covered with various cliches which have to be broken.