Tout Va Bien - Softcover

Stéphan Landry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3906803449 ISBN 13: 9783906803449

Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey, 2017

Synopsis

Advertising slogans, punning neon signs, chocolate brand and movie studio logos – Ste?phan Landry’s variegated world of fiction and commerce is a Hollywood idyll in which, as the slogan goes, “Tout va bien”. On sheets of A3 paper during and after his training in Geneva, on squared loose-leaf during his wanderjahre, then softened recycled paper due to dire straits, Landry created a veritable Warholian alphabet executed in techniques ranging from gouache, ink, glaze, synthetic varnish to Tipp-Ex. The happiness industry may pitch the bright side of life as loudly as it likes: Landry bares its underlying mechanisms by means of exaggeration, turning his pop art into an intimate portrait of the artist and his everyday environs. Landry’s signature mischievousness is all over his iconic works, and he invests them with a sensuality that is less sumptuous than explicit. And yet there they are, anonymous and isolated from the world, silhouettes frail as those by Markus Raetz.

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About the Author

L'univers de l'artiste suisse Stéphan Landry (1960-2009) est quasi exclusivement celui du dessin. Très personnelles, le plus souvent de petit format, les œuvres trahissent l'acuité du regard d'un artiste à la très grande sensibilité, qui perçoit le monde dans toute sa complexité. C'est dans les carnets réalisés à Rome en 1998 que l'artiste puise la matière de son œuvre à venir. Ils vont ainsi devenir des répertoires de « mythologies » rattachées à la culture populaire, mais aussi littéraire. Chez l'artiste, le double, le multiple, le complexe apparaissent à chaque instant : ici un dessin sur papier calque, là son double, puis son reflet inversé. Dans ces jeux de mots récurrents et ces constants détournements d'images, subtilité et ambiguïté ne cessent d'affleurer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906803449
• ISBN 13: 9783906803449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304