TERRE D'OMBRE BRÛLÉE
GASTON PUEL, BERNARD ALLIGAND
Ode to love beyond time and illness of the poet's wife.
"L'air que je respire, le jour qui nous voit, étreintes nature que rien ne fourvoie..."
The artist seizes this hymn through art brut.
Crumpled paper, a metaphor of the couple, sands and washes trace a memorial path ...
Unpublished poem accompanied by original works: subjects photographed, digitized, retouched, printed on wallpaper by the artist, tears, heightened with sand, watercolor, ink.
First edition 2010 at 45 ex. numbered, signed by the author and the artist.
Leporello form. square 19 cm, 18 panels (3.4 m flat), text composed by hand in Garamont type, printed on Vellum BFK Rives 300 g by the Livre d'art workshop of the Imprimerie Nationale.
Public price 2021: 900 €