Planets
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Author: Thierry W. Despont
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Place of printing: New York
Year of publication: 2005
Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting, and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorful magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the "abstract sublime," they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension.
Product Condition:
Example in good condition. Dust jacket with dust spots and slight signs of wear to the edges and corners. Hard cover with traces of dust. Slightly yellowed pages. English text. english text. Book in good condition.
ISBN Code: 2843237955
EAN: 9782843237959
Pages: s.n.
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 43
Width: 34
Description
English text. english text. With numerous b/w and color images ft
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