Although he worked in series, transfiguring each other from the end of the 1980s onwards, the works he produced from 1973 onwards already reveal his attachment to letting certain motifs, to which he would return again and again, guide him. Later, this return led him to distribute avatars in the same composition - hands, heads, trembling silhouettes, each inhabiting a circled rectangle characteristic of Dilasser's art. But if each painting lives in its own enclosure, its motifs migrate from one series to the next, which the Eymoutiers exhibition allows us to understand, in two large rooms like rounds of works linked by their grotesque character. Olivier Delavallade, who is the curator, found there a translation of his vision of the art of the painter, summarized thus: "As much as the forms, the very meaning transforms or rather turns around; Dilasser's time being cyclical more than linear."

Extract from the article by Tom Laurent published in the N°103 of the magazine Art Absolument. Publication on October 14, 2022.

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