To Dream, to Collect
Abstract X, 2019
From the series 30 Proofs
Size
49 x 70 x 0.1 cm
19.29 x 28 x 0.04 in
Reference
3534e2cf
Year
2019
Medium
Prints , Multiples
Category
Silkscreen Print, serie of 30 Proofs, Random numbering; numbered and signed by the artist; Fabriano Paper 240g; New, never framed; Art certificate signed by the artist.
Inspired by Hans Hartung, Richard Saint-Amans is interested in signs, traces and other fragments of memory left on the walls. Mix of media and hybridization between text and pictorial work. Thus, starting from the figuration from which he has distanced himself according to his inner paths, he comes to superimpose the signs, substrates of an education almost forgotten, producing abstract compositions, stripping, purifying his line to get ever closer to the essence of the gesture, calligraphing in a way the painting.
About the Artists
1959 Béziers, France
Richard Saint-Amans is a French artist born in 1949 in Béziers. he lives and works near Versailles. Although he has attended art courses in prestigious schools, Richard Saint-Amans defines himself as an autodidact. His artistic debut as a teenager took him to photography, which he turned aside to create hybrid prints, the preconceptions of which are already being worked on. Arrive painting. His taste for American hyperrealism, Flemish primitives, his background as a photographer naturally takes him to a hyperrealist figuration. He then works on the issue of transparency and glazing in a demanding technical exploration. He ends up feeling cramped in this approach and the concomitant discovery of Japan confirms the abandonment of this path. By freeing himself from the constraints of the technique, he refocuses himself on the line, concentrating on gestures in a quasi-calligraphic approach. Inspired by Hans Hartung, he is interested in signs, traces and other bits of memory left on the walls. Mixing of supports and hybridization still between text and pictorial work. Thus, most of the numbers he walked away the sandstone of his inner paths, he comes to superimpose signs, substrates of an almost forgotten writing, producing abstract compositions, stripping, purifying his line for ever closer of the essence of the gesture, calligraphing the painting in a way.
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