The shape of air.
Spaces & Signs| N° d'inventaire | 25404 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 68 p., numerous black and white illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791094176788 |
Emmanuel Constant's drawings are first and foremost gestures. Like scratches in space—in space. As if he wanted to tear away its mysteries. He began this series of inks inspired by Italo Calvino's short story The Origin of Birds . The Italian writer provides instructions so that each of his readers can create the images evoked by his text.
Beyond Calvino's birds, Emmanuel Constant saw the air that carried them, made them spread their wings—be what they were. What traces do they leave in the sky? Have they transformed it? The artist invites us to follow his birds, to discover them from every angle, to appreciate the interlacing of their flights, to be amazed by their accidents along the way. He draws us into the "cracks" in the paper where they sometimes disappear. It's up to us to feel the vibrations, then the breaths that escape from them, coming from elsewhere—from an elsewhere that is a true world, a new oxygen.
Emmanuel Constant's drawings are first and foremost gestures. Like scratches in space—in space. As if he wanted to tear away its mysteries. He began this series of inks inspired by Italo Calvino's short story The Origin of Birds . The Italian writer provides instructions so that each of his readers can create the images evoked by his text.
Beyond Calvino's birds, Emmanuel Constant saw the air that carried them, made them spread their wings—be what they were. What traces do they leave in the sky? Have they transformed it? The artist invites us to follow his birds, to discover them from every angle, to appreciate the interlacing of their flights, to be amazed by their accidents along the way. He draws us into the "cracks" in the paper where they sometimes disappear. It's up to us to feel the vibrations, then the breaths that escape from them, coming from elsewhere—from an elsewhere that is a true world, a new oxygen.