The chosen and the damned.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23700 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 64 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782377920341 |
The drawings of Louis Soutter's later years carry within them a contagious energy. Works of confinement and frustration, they open and question. Works of a man spellbound, they are spellbinding. Drawn in Indian ink and most often with his fingertips, without pen or brush, as if in direct contact with the nervous system, they are figures, men and women, often in profile, silhouettes without shadows, shadows themselves, walking, running, stumbling, towards the unknown but with the certainty of the inevitable. These elementary forms have such proportions that the arm gesture of the seated draftsman is natural, free to improvise. Few colors, often black alone, no illusory depth, everything happens on the plane of the paper. Over the years, I have spent time looking at them, in books, in museums, in private collections. One day they began to speak to me, I just listened to them, accompanied their syncopated litany. (Jean Frémon)
Jean Frémon was born in Paris in 1946. Since 1969, he has regularly published novels, poems, and essays on contemporary artists. Most of these deal with the ambiguous status of the figure in art. Jean Frémon is also president of the Galerie Lelong.
Drawings by Louis Soutter.
The drawings of Louis Soutter's later years carry within them a contagious energy. Works of confinement and frustration, they open and question. Works of a man spellbound, they are spellbinding. Drawn in Indian ink and most often with his fingertips, without pen or brush, as if in direct contact with the nervous system, they are figures, men and women, often in profile, silhouettes without shadows, shadows themselves, walking, running, stumbling, towards the unknown but with the certainty of the inevitable. These elementary forms have such proportions that the arm gesture of the seated draftsman is natural, free to improvise. Few colors, often black alone, no illusory depth, everything happens on the plane of the paper. Over the years, I have spent time looking at them, in books, in museums, in private collections. One day they began to speak to me, I just listened to them, accompanied their syncopated litany. (Jean Frémon)
Jean Frémon was born in Paris in 1946. Since 1969, he has regularly published novels, poems, and essays on contemporary artists. Most of these deal with the ambiguous status of the figure in art. Jean Frémon is also president of the Galerie Lelong.
Drawings by Louis Soutter.