VELTER André.
Ernest Pignon Ernest.
Gallimard
Regular price
€50,00
| N° d'inventaire | 25732 |
| Format | 23 x 30.5 |
| Détails | New expanded edition, 360 p., numerous illustrations, publisher's cloth binding in slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782072980619 |
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 pioneer, since 1966, of what is now called "street art," his interventions transform, disrupt, and reveal the places and events he has specifically chosen. Inscribed at night in the contexts for which they were conceived, his drawings resemble fictions that burst into the realm of reality and disrupt its apprehension as much as its perspectives and habits. For 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, buried, forgotten, and sometimes censored relationships. "I don't make works in situations," says Ernest Pignon-Ernest, "I try to make works of situations."
This monograph thus retraces the entirety of an exceptional career, sensitive, sensual, and alert, with particular attention paid to the most recent achievements. It bears witness to a creation that exalts memory, myths, revolts, and extraordinary personalities. A creation always on the alert.
A pioneer, since 1966, of what is now called "street art," his interventions transform, disrupt, and reveal the places and events he has specifically chosen. Inscribed at night in the contexts for which they were conceived, his drawings resemble fictions that burst into the realm of reality and disrupt its apprehension as much as its perspectives and habits. For 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, buried, forgotten, and sometimes censored relationships. "I don't make works in situations," says Ernest Pignon-Ernest, "I try to make works of situations."
This monograph thus retraces the entirety of an exceptional career, sensitive, sensual, and alert, with particular attention paid to the most recent achievements. It bears witness to a creation that exalts memory, myths, revolts, and extraordinary personalities. A creation always on the alert.
A pioneer, since 1966, of what is now called "street art," his interventions transform, disrupt, and reveal the places and events he has specifically chosen. Inscribed at night in the contexts for which they were conceived, his drawings resemble fictions that burst into the realm of reality and disrupt its apprehension as much as its perspectives and habits. For 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, buried, forgotten, and sometimes censored relationships. "I don't make works in situations," says Ernest Pignon-Ernest, "I try to make works of situations."
This monograph thus retraces the entirety of an exceptional career, sensitive, sensual, and alert, with particular attention paid to the most recent achievements. It bears witness to a creation that exalts memory, myths, revolts, and extraordinary personalities. A creation always on the alert.