Milena Veldaandmiosotis

20 years after Ernest Pignon-Ernest L'Isle sur la Sorgue

Moving on vacation, and for those who have the chance to spend the summer near Isle sur la Sorgue, do not miss the delicate and subtle exhibition Ernest Pignon-Ernest, in the no less delicate and delicious home of Rene Char.

Ernest Pignon-Ernest is an artist whose work (original) is (Wholesale) to choose first an urban space with meaning, to hold a drawing on the history of the place, for example, drawing that is then photographed in situ photograph itself will be reworked, completed, then screen-printed or re-photographed.

The challenge of this device is embedded with multiple interventions, as is well said in interviews and texts by the artist dedicated to his work in staging the urban areas themselves, which would pass without the intervention unnoticed: " ... at first there is a place, a place of life on which I wish to work. I try to grasp at once all that it sees and, in the same movement which is not seen: the history, buried memories, the symbolic ... In this real place, I just put a piece of fiction, an image (usually a body-wide 1). This integration aims both to make the place a plastic space and in working memory, revealing, disturbing, exacerbate the symbolic ... " Pignon-Ernest revisits some of the places haunted by the great figures of national our literary pantheon: Nerval, Rimbaud, Artaud, Genet (the choice of these figures was not trivial). It is ultimately the inverse the ready-made: instead of extracting an object from the street for display in a museum, a work is exposed to the streets to reveal something of the street itself.

Exhibitor spaces rather than works, the dynamic processes rather than stationary objects, at the crossroads of the poster art of the streets and academic drawing, combining two or more art forms (drawing, architecture, screen printing, photography), the creative process of Pignon-Ernest is himself the opportunity of a poetic meditation which we will measure any fertility in the museum Campredon, or in the pages of the beautiful monograph that here.

I also mentioned the exhibition dedicated to him at Avignon, Chapel St. Charles, until July 27. Useful information on the official website of the artist.

Exhibition " Ernest Pignon-Ernest, pagan icons " Campredon Hotel - Maison René Char, July 4 to October 4, 2008.