Natural histories.
Marguerite Waknine| N° d'inventaire | 23731 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 60 p., notebook. |
| Publication | Angoulême, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094565315 |
A collector at heart, Benjamin Monti returns to us in this latest work with his consummate art of drawing, which he this time uses in an old school notebook of natural history. The series of these ink drawings inaugurates and thus suggests multiple dialogues capable of creating narrative fabrics producing stories (natural, of course) but also biographical stories since it is also the case with drawn writings whose object is precisely the living. Everyone knows: there are no natural history textbooks without drawings, plates or sketches. And everyone will certainly agree that the great art of this Natural History textbook, signed Benjamin Monti, is wonderfully illustrated by these kinds of drawings of drawings which allow, thanks to this doubling, this implacable rhetoric, to create the meaning of a new history of natural history.
A collector at heart, Benjamin Monti returns to us in this latest work with his consummate art of drawing, which he this time uses in an old school notebook of natural history. The series of these ink drawings inaugurates and thus suggests multiple dialogues capable of creating narrative fabrics producing stories (natural, of course) but also biographical stories since it is also the case with drawn writings whose object is precisely the living. Everyone knows: there are no natural history textbooks without drawings, plates or sketches. And everyone will certainly agree that the great art of this Natural History textbook, signed Benjamin Monti, is wonderfully illustrated by these kinds of drawings of drawings which allow, thanks to this doubling, this implacable rhetoric, to create the meaning of a new history of natural history.