SHARED TIME between the poets Marc Alyn and Nohad Salameh (partners in life) is not merely the passing of hours and days. It is a fusion of souls and minds, an unceasing exploration of the love of language, where every moment lived together becomes a form of eternity, sublimated by words.

Whether cosmic time or earthly time, Bernard Alligand creates a tension between the ephemeral (human existence) and the eternal (the universe). He transcends the linear perception of time through a play of mirrors and geometric forms, symbolizing the birth and expansion of the universe in contrasting hues of red and black, scattered with stars of silver and gold.

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« ​Munificence / largesses de l’espace ! / La monnaie des soleils / jetée à la volée / sur les comptoirs du Temps / éclabousse d’or fluide / nos mains émerveillées » Extrait des poèmes de Marc Alyn

« Le Temps demeure  éternel / lorsque nous touchons des yeux / le rivage de l’enfance / avec ses vergers immaculés / et ses médailles de carton doré. » Extrait des poèmes de Nohad Salameh

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Original 2024 edition, illustrated by Bernard Alligand with several original works, accompanying five previously unpublished poems by Nohad Salameh and five by Marc Alyn.

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Limited edition of 30 numbered copies + 1 HC (hors commerce), signed in the colophon by the authors and the artist.

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TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

The Visual Works

The conception and creation of the two artist’s books that make up Shared Time involve a multitude of hand-crafted interventions by the artist. The innovative techniques employed—requiring great dexterity and patience—unfold in several stages:

1. Preparation of the supports: the artist’s illustrations and photographs; preparation of backgrounds on offset paper (red and black paint shot through with orange); digital printing of motifs; colouring of resin, application of coating, and sprinkling of silver and gold dust.

2. Moulin du Gué white paper (270 gsm) engraved using the Carborundum technique: composition on plate, application of material, dry press printing strip by strip.

3. Measurement and cutting of geometric forms, assembly and mounting of compositions.

4. Selection of binding and mounting of the books onto a chemise lined with red velvet.

The original edition consists of 30 copies, all similar, each nonetheless unique.

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FORMAT, TEXT COMPOSITION, PRINTING PROCESS AND BINDING

Two facing leporellos, each in a folded format of 16 × 21 cm.

The text, set in Baskerville type and printed on Moulin du Gué white 270 gsm paper, was completed on the typographic presses of the Atelier d’Art des Montquartiers in Issy-les-Moulineaux in Spring 2023.

The chemise and slipcase were crafted by the Reliure du Centre workshop in Limoges.

 

PRESENTATION OF THE WORK

Composed of two facing artist’s books mounted within a red velvet chemise, the whole housed in a red cloth slipcase.

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PUBLIC PRICE (incl. VAT) 2026

The copy, comprising two artist’s books: €2,000