"Far from the etiquette’s and narrow specializations, Roger Ychai is
constantly, tirelessly, searching for the free and genuine creative gesture.
For that purpose, he has the courage to confront his first classical formation
to different traditions. His travels, the masters he met, his ceaseless deepening
of his work transformed him into a very exacting artist, whose art attempts to do a synthesis of the oral and written
work, of the sound and the light, the logos and melos.
Painting, Music, and Words are, for him, the different languages from a
same source, the expressions of the human scream, of his murmurs, and his silence."
Louis Fima
"What is an Art Work, if not the imaginary form pointing
out here, in front of us, as a testimony of our utter confusion?
Roger Ychai is asking these endless questions, nuanced by the passing fancies
of a memory that is fooled by everything. Be sure that the artist is present
here, only in order to say and to reveal to us the depths of our thoughts,
in the appropriateness of what we ignore."
Sidy Lamine Diarra
How not to think? The E. Levinas' unforgettable expression: "the face tears the tangible world apart". In its own way, the painter-musician is solicited by this laceration and expresses those voices which make the horizon vibrate to the compass of their worrying proximity.
In that way, the space of the picture becomes in its own way, a space of ethics within the time of an encounter or of an exhibition, at the "fine" risk of future encounters.
Daniel Epstein
