Figures of the world.
Lienart| N° d'inventaire | 24069 |
| Format | 24 x 28 |
| Détails | 144 p., 110 illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782359063257 |
Éric Fonteneau (born in 1954) travels the world as a draftsman. Since the end of the 1980s, he has been capturing the scale, or rather the immensity, of the universe through a work that depicts itineraries, faces, and landscapes on a blank sheet of paper. The artist has been fascinated by geography, maps, and portolans since his inaugural piece, entitled La Chambre des cartes . In his works, he transcribes the meanders and twists of waterways, the movement of waves, as well as the contours and shapes of an island, an archipelago, or a mountain. His work invites us on an imaginary journey, played out in the secrecy of the studio, or through the pages of a book.
It is the geographical imagination that Éric Fonteneau's work questions, from his first fragmented pieces, a poetic exploration of archipelagos, to his recent panoramas drawn in black chalk associating the different facets of nature, the mineral, the vegetable or the aquatic, passing through his cartographic projections or his collections of marvelous objects illustrating the fauna and flora, like so many curiosities which come to illuminate our knowledge of the world.
Exhibition catalog.
Éric Fonteneau (born in 1954) travels the world as a draftsman. Since the end of the 1980s, he has been capturing the scale, or rather the immensity, of the universe through a work that depicts itineraries, faces, and landscapes on a blank sheet of paper. The artist has been fascinated by geography, maps, and portolans since his inaugural piece, entitled La Chambre des cartes . In his works, he transcribes the meanders and twists of waterways, the movement of waves, as well as the contours and shapes of an island, an archipelago, or a mountain. His work invites us on an imaginary journey, played out in the secrecy of the studio, or through the pages of a book.
It is the geographical imagination that Éric Fonteneau's work questions, from his first fragmented pieces, a poetic exploration of archipelagos, to his recent panoramas drawn in black chalk associating the different facets of nature, the mineral, the vegetable or the aquatic, passing through his cartographic projections or his collections of marvelous objects illustrating the fauna and flora, like so many curiosities which come to illuminate our knowledge of the world.
Exhibition catalog.