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Item Number: 130258
Title: PHILIPPE COGNÉE
Author: Bon, Francois (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9782757208427
Description: Paris: Somogy, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 104pp., 69 illus. Exhibition held at Domaine national de Chambord. French-English text. Summary: By virtue of the many exhibitions held over the past twenty years, Philippe Cognée has established himself as one of the major painters of the beginning of the 21st century. It was following his stay at the Villa Médicis in 1991 that the artist invented a technique involving photographs and encaustic painting which would become his exclusive working process on canvas. The objective photographic rendering makes way for a blurred, liquefied effect, even leading to a partial disappearance of the motif, and allowing for a certain abstraction to affect the figure represented. In distorting figures whose motifs are nonetheless among the most ordinary and commonplace in real life, Philippe Cognée probes pictorial matter – he questions representation. The viewer perceives in the finished work an expression of loss: there is always something vacillating, melting, disappearing that the painter seizes at the moment of its vanishing, in the movement of evanescence which he contrives to transcribe in extremis. (^Available June 2014^)
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