Today in our materialistic society of hyper-individualism, man is dehumanized and paradoxically the cult of ego continues to take precedence over our personal development and therefore over our evolution towards a search for universal meaning. The genesis of MetaHism finds its origin in this reflection. For Patrick Laumond, it has always been necessary to define oneself as making art rather than being an artist. Although this is often understood as being a corollary to the act of creation, it seems to him that it is not the artist who determines art, but art which on the contrary determines the artist.
This approach guided his personal research journey and led him to create MetaHism. This art of consciousness has matured over thirty years of experimentation, reflection and readings as transversal as they are a priori antagonistic (from quantum scientific thesis through philosophy and spirituality). From a plastic point of view, he has experimented with everything. He always ended up confronting the limits of what already existed in art, a mirror effect, reducing the evolution of his own consciousness and what he had to say. Thus, he never ceased to seek to transcend the existing, by transcribing a new complex thought.
Since always, the artist has had the vocation to respond to commissions, calls for proposals. Today, in our consumer society, he seeks to create buzz and must be an entrepreneur converted to merchandising, which can have the perverse effect of limiting his own freedom of thought and creation.
MetaHism articulates a plastic language to make the object of consciousness perceptible through art.
MetaHism is a material support to make the object of consciousness understood through art.
MetaHism is a materialization of the fundamentals of consciousness in its globality applied to art; what he calls the fundamental consciousness of the Whole.
Today, in our society of dematerialization, all mediums have been exploited (painting, sculpture, installation, video...) and everything can be art (the manufactured object, the consumer product, the concept, the artist himself...).
MetaHism is not a critique of art but a new form of artistic consciousness that encompasses, merges all dimensions of art.
MetaHism gives new meaning to art by creating a new form of multidimensional language whose statements can be declined infinitely in dialogical form of correspondences.
Today, in our society, all thought must be determined, stopped, objectified without leaving any place for uncertainty and indeterminism.
MetaHism proposes to unify these opposites, to connect them.
MetaHism proposes to synthesize systemic thinking in what it has most dual and complex.
MetaHism is a holistic conception of art.
Today, in our society, Man constantly runs after time and would like to have the gift of ubiquity. Social networks and the internet are a symptomatic manifestation of this.
MetaHism proposes to demonstrate that two distinct entities despite their spatial distance can continue to dialogue together. Connection is possible despite space-time.
MetaHism demonstrates the illusion of space-time.
MetaHism is a meditative invitation to the here and now.
Likewise, the notion of anthropocentrism would be an illusion of our place in the Universe. At the time of ecosystem upheaval, Man cannot deny that he is only the tiny element of a great Whole of which he is part.
MetaHism is a Holographic work. Each volume serves the whole. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, the part is in the whole, but the whole is in the part. The most common example is that of an individual's genetic heritage found in each cell that composes it.
MetaHism invites us to overcome all forms of individualism.
MetaHism connects seemingly antagonistic dimensions within a single field of experience.
MetaHism invites us to open ourselves to the fields of all possibilities.
It asserts a systemic vision where each element makes sense in relation to the whole.
MetaHism invites us to connect antagonisms; consciousness and unconsciousness, materiality and immateriality, visible and invisible, temporal and timeless, interiority and exteriority, limit and infinity or continuous and discontinuous.
Patrick Laumond
'Meta, because expressing the whole, ism as concept and universal suffix, which we find in all movements and H, eighth letter of the alphabet, (letter of infinity, ∞, lemniscate) and separator. Letter with high symbolic significance. Cerebral and sensitive, virtual and real, painting, sculpture, concept, installation, LAUMOND's work is all this and much more. Born from an approach of absolute rigor, his work remains the most radical manifestation of a spirit in freedom.'
Edith Herlemont-Lassiat, Art critic - Exporevue.com
*The Manifesto of MetaHism already exists; this theoretical work is concretized as a work in itself consultable on request.