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Alain Séchas

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"Characterized by its graphic dynamism-booth the sharp, remorseless line of the cartoonist and the applied line of the technical draftsman, the two sometimes combining forces of three dimensional pieces- Alain Séchas's work exploits a minor mode perfectly in tune with the place of the fine arts in culture today. This mode allows him to function more comfortably in the inherently schizophrenic and constantly overlapping role of the artist today who is constantly obliged to deal with the market and institutions to whom he must make himself known when it is really the public with whom he wishes to creates dialogue.rnrnBy renderinghis subjects as minors, Séchas creates increased formal freedom for himself and succeeds both in protecting himself against the bombast of the artits with a mission and pointing us back, not without a certain melancholy, to a golden age when all one needed was a box of washesto paint the portrai of one's fatheror a tube of purple or red to give substanceto one's darkest fears and thereby confront them. He reminds us that out of the most banal surrundings we where once able to extract beauty, to findin what Roland Barthes termed "that old thing" the means to brace oneself against the violence of the sights reality also obliges us to witness. Séchas'sturning back to childhood is one way of achieving this.rnrnAlain Séchas's work reminds us that if the death of art has come and gone several times, we are far from having seen the end of it. Worse, our need for images is insatiable. If violence has, according to popular myth, been rendered banal by the media, it is not through a surfeit of images but, on the contrary, through an excess of mere visual documents and the lack of genuine images. In signifying a collective suicide by a simple red line through a group of individuals or by exploding balloons, Séchas makes us rediscover the violence of seeing. His work requires more than admiring or fascinated attention on our part, it demands a form of responsibility: we must perpetually question what we see. In this world peopled by cats and ghosts, there is a trace of lightness, a means of regrouping, of gathering strength without feeling obliged to mimic life because art would be, some say, too fatal."rnrn- Patick Javault has been an independent art critic for the past fifteen years. Amongst other art magazines, he has written for Artistes, Art Press, and Omnibus. (1998)rn

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

701 Jav A

Penerbit

Perancis : CEE., 1998

Deskripsi Fisik

103 p

Bahasa

English / French

ISBN/ISSN

2 85025 637 4

Klasifikasi

700

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Edisi

Hazan

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