TRACES, P.I.P, 2019.
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A project created during the residency l’Art en Dordogne installed at the Pôle D’interprétation de la Préhistoire at les Eyzies-de-Tayac sur Sireuil, and in relation to the residency Le Pavillon, led by Ange Leccia and hosted by hte Bordeaux Fine Arts School EBABX.
For the exhibition at the Pole for the interpretation of Prehistory, I presented a corpus of works between installation, printing, drawings and sculptures that raises the questions of line, the trace, which are witnesses to the history of men and women, but especially of life.
Whether lines painted or engraved by the hand of our ancestors 15,000 years ago on the walls of caves, layers of sedimentations piled on top of each other and laid bare by drill cores, or even the action of the different climatic eras on the great rocky facades that rise from the vegetation and serve as landscape, the line and the trace express and draw the history.
Through my research in the Dordogne and Cantabria around the various prehistoric "ornate" sites, I’ve made a set of three works that tend to reveal the formal relationships that determine the bridges between the scales of magnitude (micro / macro), various eras (prehistory, modern times), but erased between natural and hand-related events of men and women.
series of 10 ink drawings on paper, A2 format, 2019.
In the project of access of the Vézère valley to the label "Grand site of France" which allows a protection of the inheritance, one of the gestures carried out is to clear the rocky façades of the covering vegetation to make appear these limestone massifs typical of this region and determinants for cave formations and prehistoric shelters.
This work is an assembly of lines and traces which, in their multitude and their organization is associated with the representation of a landscape, that of the rocky ensemble of Laugerie in les Eyzies-de-Tayac sur Sireuil.
Each of the 10 drawings is a single drawing in itself, while being an excerpt from the overall subject that appears in its entirety only with the complete series.
The composition of his features reveals an analogy of forms with both the layers of sedimentation witnessed by the cores of boreholes, as well as the human gesture on stone from one era to another, as well as the composition of the landscape itself.
Whether we change scale, space or even temporality, the links between all things inevitably appear.
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TRACES 1/3 : Incision
I’ve discovered this trace left by the action of modern man: a cut in the rock following the activity of an old quarry. On the facade of this bare rock, this line echoes directly with the signs seen in the caves.
Silkscreen print on limestone, 37x165x8 cm, 2019.
I’ve discovered this trace left by the action of modern man: a cut in the rock following the activity of an old quarry. On the facade of this bare rock, this line echoes directly with the signs seen in the caves.
The artist therefore decides to capture this image and use it in a system of representation that goes from photography to screen printing to the sculptural object. The idea is to select a block of limestone and print the photography of this trace directly on its surface, print which will itself become the trace of the artist's action on the the environment, like that of the recent modern man who leaves a mark on his environment by cutting out the landscape for a habitat utility, or just as he did before him, the "old" modern man who engraved and painted the surface of the rock in a system of representation of its own.
TRACES 1/3 : Extraction
series sculptures, pigment and plaster, various formats, 2019.
Core drilling is a type of exploratory drilling, aimed at taking a sample of the earth or marine subsoil. For the person who knows how to read it, the obtained carrot contains all the history of the earth within the limit of the drilling depth. The object obtained testifies to the various layers of sedimentation and the events that occurred, resulting in a succession of more or less dense lines of different qualities, all expressing a time of their own.
An object that contains images, a sculpture containing drawing.
