Painter's engraving.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23581 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 64 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851949158 |
The bite of drypoint, the voluptuousness of aquatint, the tension of the line provided by etching, faux carborundum, hammering with a screwdriver: so many gestures and techniques that offer Jacques Clauzel his spaces of freedom. A great logiste at the Prix de Rome, he worked in his early days on large paper cut-outs before abandoning painting to devote himself to photography. Back in France after a long stay in Africa, he decided to start everything from scratch and returned to painting through numerous automatic drawings, he broke with what he knew and chose to use kraft paper, which he folded, crumpled, and stacked. Experimenting with all sorts of techniques allowed him to constantly return to a fundamental questioning of the line; this line older than drawing which leads back to the most archaic activity...
The bite of drypoint, the voluptuousness of aquatint, the tension of the line provided by etching, faux carborundum, hammering with a screwdriver: so many gestures and techniques that offer Jacques Clauzel his spaces of freedom. A great logiste at the Prix de Rome, he worked in his early days on large paper cut-outs before abandoning painting to devote himself to photography. Back in France after a long stay in Africa, he decided to start everything from scratch and returned to painting through numerous automatic drawings, he broke with what he knew and chose to use kraft paper, which he folded, crumpled, and stacked. Experimenting with all sorts of techniques allowed him to constantly return to a fundamental questioning of the line; this line older than drawing which leads back to the most archaic activity...