Patrick Piccinelli is inspired by the special light at the start of the year in Switzerland. The days begin to lengthen and the winter sunlight enhances the landscape.

The shades of blue in this composition refer to the winter sky highlighted by the snowy landscape."Cold is for Philippe Jaccottet the vector of a transfiguration of

world and the metaphor of a poetic creation based on stripping;

back to elementary. An intimate link connects the representation of cold to poetry

of Jaccottet; for whom obliteration is "a way of shining" and for whom

cold winter light; both sparkling and infinitely fragile; gives access to

the depth of being. Winter is not for Jaccottet the season of the decline of

light; but on the contrary that of the radiation of a translucent light.The poetry of cold with Philippe Jaccottet

Emmanuelle Tabet

Scientific Research National Center

– CNRS (France)