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Ernest Pignon-Ernest.
VELTER André.

Ernest Pignon-Ernest.

Gallimard
€50,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25495
Format 23 x 31
Détails 357 p., cloth binding.
Publication Paris, 2014
Etat Nine
ISBN
From the Plateau d'Albion to Certaldo, from Charleville to Paris, from Naples to Algiers, from Nice to Soweto, from Chile to Palestine, Ernest Pignon-Ernest transforms the streets of the world into ephemeral works of art. Some of his images, notably those executed during the Commune and his vagabond Rimbaud, reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies, have become true icons of modern times. A precursor, since 1966, of what is now called "street art," his interventions transform, disrupt, and reveal the places and events he has precisely chosen. Inscribed at night in the contexts for which they were conceived, his drawings are similar to fictions bursting into the field of reality and disrupting its apprehension as much as its perspectives and habits. Because these are actions that go beyond simple outdoor exhibition, which intend to arouse or resuscitate, in the manner of a poet or even an anthropologist, a whole set of complex relationships, buried, forgotten, sometimes censored. "I don't make works in situation," says Ernest Pignon-Ernest, "I try to make works of situations." This monograph thus retraces the entirety of an exceptional, sensitive, sensual and alert career, with particular attention paid to the most recent achievements. It testifies to a creation that exalts memory, myths, revolts, and extraordinary personalities. A creation always on the alert.
From the Plateau d'Albion to Certaldo, from Charleville to Paris, from Naples to Algiers, from Nice to Soweto, from Chile to Palestine, Ernest Pignon-Ernest transforms the streets of the world into ephemeral works of art. Some of his images, notably those executed during the Commune and his vagabond Rimbaud, reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies, have become true icons of modern times. A precursor, since 1966, of what is now called "street art," his interventions transform, disrupt, and reveal the places and events he has precisely chosen. Inscribed at night in the contexts for which they were conceived, his drawings are similar to fictions bursting into the field of reality and disrupting its apprehension as much as its perspectives and habits. Because these are actions that go beyond simple outdoor exhibition, which intend to arouse or resuscitate, in the manner of a poet or even an anthropologist, a whole set of complex relationships, buried, forgotten, sometimes censored. "I don't make works in situation," says Ernest Pignon-Ernest, "I try to make works of situations." This monograph thus retraces the entirety of an exceptional, sensitive, sensual and alert career, with particular attention paid to the most recent achievements. It testifies to a creation that exalts memory, myths, revolts, and extraordinary personalities. A creation always on the alert.