Cueco
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 23926 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 256 pages, 240 illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359063042 |
This retrospective monograph is an attempt to describe the work of Henri Cueco as a whole, from the first canvases exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture until the artist's death in 2017, and in its diversity, both painted and drawn work, but also installations, tapestries, theater sets...
Since the 1960s, Cueco has been developing a figurative style of painting that explores the body, the ambiguity of desires and the violence of human relationships, and the tension between man's place in nature and his occupation of urban spaces. All of these essential themes are fundamental to his future work.
Cueco is an artist who works in series, exhausting one theme, one figure to move on to another, but capable of returning to it, seemingly unnoticed, years later. His work constantly stands between order and disorder, between articulation and disarticulation, around a great question which is essentially that of our relationship with nature.
Although Cueco painted and drew many animals, sheep, pigs, snakes, etc., it is, among the animal figures, dogs that appear most regularly in his work. While he is interested in dogs from a plastic point of view, whose shapes and lines fascinate him, it is their proximity to humans that interests him and often pushes him to make the dog a metaphorical double of man, between domestication and savagery, between nature and culture.
This book is published on the occasion of a series of exhibitions devoted to Cueco's work which will be held in 2020-2021: at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Les Sables d'Olonne, from February 2 to May 24, 2020; at the Transpalette, art center in Bourges, and at La Box, gallery of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Bourges, from June to September 2020; at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dole, from October 16, 2020 to March 7, 2021; at the Carré, Château-Gontier.
This retrospective monograph is an attempt to describe the work of Henri Cueco as a whole, from the first canvases exhibited at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture until the artist's death in 2017, and in its diversity, both painted and drawn work, but also installations, tapestries, theater sets...
Since the 1960s, Cueco has been developing a figurative style of painting that explores the body, the ambiguity of desires and the violence of human relationships, and the tension between man's place in nature and his occupation of urban spaces. All of these essential themes are fundamental to his future work.
Cueco is an artist who works in series, exhausting one theme, one figure to move on to another, but capable of returning to it, seemingly unnoticed, years later. His work constantly stands between order and disorder, between articulation and disarticulation, around a great question which is essentially that of our relationship with nature.
Although Cueco painted and drew many animals, sheep, pigs, snakes, etc., it is, among the animal figures, dogs that appear most regularly in his work. While he is interested in dogs from a plastic point of view, whose shapes and lines fascinate him, it is their proximity to humans that interests him and often pushes him to make the dog a metaphorical double of man, between domestication and savagery, between nature and culture.
This book is published on the occasion of a series of exhibitions devoted to Cueco's work which will be held in 2020-2021: at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Les Sables d'Olonne, from February 2 to May 24, 2020; at the Transpalette, art center in Bourges, and at La Box, gallery of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Bourges, from June to September 2020; at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dole, from October 16, 2020 to March 7, 2021; at the Carré, Château-Gontier.