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Élection de M. Erik DESMAZIÈRES à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts
dans la section de Gravure
Au cours de sa séance plénière du 9 avril 2008, l’Académie des Beaux-Arts a élu
M. Erik DESMAZIÈRES au fauteuil précédemment occupé par Jean-Marie Granier.
Erik Desmazières est né à Rabat en 1948. Après une enfance et une adolescence itinérantes
passées entre le Maroc, la France et le Portugal, il entre à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de
Paris. L’année de son diplôme, en 1971, il décide d’entreprendre une carrière artistique.
Il réalise ses premières gravures sur les conseils de Jean Delpech, conférencier au cours du
soir de la Ville de Paris. Alors que, dans un premier temps, Desmazières considère
essentiellement la gravure comme un moyen de reproduire ses dessins, il devient
progressivement conscient des potentialités de cette discipline en tant qu’expression artistique
à part entière. Il est encouragé dans cette voie par le graveur Philippe Mohlitz, puis par le
galeriste new yorkais Andrew Fitch.
Le monde mystérieux d’Erik Desmazières est habité tour à tour de scènes d’intérieur
désertées par leurs habitants, de planches naturalistes détaillant crabes, coquillages ou
légumes dans l’esprit des anciens cabinets de curiosités ou encore d’architectures
géométriques ou foisonnantes, où s’affirme la postérité d’un Jérôme Bosch.
La reconnaissance du secteur artistique est rapide pour Erik Desmazières qui reçoit dès 1978
le Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris pour son œuvre gravé. Ce dernier s’élève, après
quarante ans d’activité, à plus de 200 planches.
De nombreuses expositions personnelles des œuvres d’Erik Desmazières ont eu lieu en
Europe, aux Etats-Unis et au Japon (dont les rétrospectives de la Rembrandthuis
d’Amsterdam en 2004 et du Musée Carnavalet de Paris en 2006). Présentes dans les
collections de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, du Rijksmuseum, du British Museum, du
Metropolitan Museum, du Brooklyn Museum et de la New York Public Library, les œuvres
d’Erik Desmazières allient de manière inédite virtuosité technique et vision onirique.
Erik Desmazieres was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1948 and lives in Paris. A graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris he studied printmaking in the late 60’s with Jean Delpech.
Erik Desmazieres is a printmaker of the Art Fantastique Visionnaire school, whose artists find their aesthetic antecedents in Bresdin, Piranesi, Callot and Durer.
His work has enjoyed considerable success in Europe and in America; his works are included in major museum collections around the world.
a "contemporary printmaker of breathtaking virtuosity" (The Independent, London, Dec. 1993), renders with masterly draughtsmanship subjects ranging from domestic interiors and garden scenes to grotesque fantasies in the tradition of Bosch and Goya.
Recipient of the prestigious Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris and today president of the Société des Peintres Graveurs Français, Desmazières has been described as "arguably the finest French printmaker of his generation" by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator of San Francisco's Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts. He has had numerous individual exhibitions in Paris, London, Hamburg, Rome, Zurich, Osaka, Tokyo, and San Francisco. His work is found in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Rijksmuseum,the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the New York Public Library as well as the Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam.
courtesy Fitch Febvrel Gallery, New York
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
Art Museum, Portland
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York
California State University, Chico
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
McGill University, Montréal
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miami-Dade Community College, Miami
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal
Musée Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Musée Jenisch, Cabinet des estampes, Vevey
Museum of Art, Cleveland
Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Neuberger Museum, New York
New York Public Library, New York
Princeton University Library, Princeton
Public Library, Newark
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rutgers University Dana Library, Newark
Suffolk Community College, Selden
The Rembrandt House News: Current Exhibitions
[The Desmazières exhibition at Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam opened 18 September, 2004 and has been extended through 16 January. The following is excerpted from the Museum's website.]
The French artist Erik Desmazières is unquestionably one of the leading graphic artists of today. His work is outstanding in its phenomenal control of technique and the great precision with which details and textures are executed. The retrospective in the Rembrandt House presents a representative selection of some sixty of his prints. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a monograph on Desmazières' life and work. This study, the first work [substantial critical study] about the artist, is published by the Hercules Segers Foundation in Amsterdam.
The Rembrandt House has asked the artist to make a series of views of Amsterdam. On four separate occasions he has spent a week in Amsterdam, at the museum's invitation, studying the work of the renowned Dutch graphic artist Willem Witsen, and making sketches in situ. The prints have been created in Paris on the basis of these studies. The series is one of the most important elements of the exhibition.
Desmazières, the son of a French diplomat, was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1948. Initially he also contemplated a career in the diplomatic service, but after graduating in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1971 he decided to become an artist. Because experts who had seen his drawings advised him to start making prints, he enrolled for the engraving course at the Cours du Soir de la Ville de Paris, graduating in 1973. Desmazières' graphic oeuvre meanwhile numbers almost two hundred prints. As well as prints he also makes drawings and gouaches. His work enjoys a great reputation among connoisserus and is represented in numerous important private and public collections all over the world.
During his period of training Desmazières became increasingly fascinated by the art of etching. In a very short space of time he developed into an extraordinarily original and skilled etcher who, with breathtaking virtuosity and great craftsmanship, makes prints on the most diverse subjects -- interiors, studios, cityscapes, landscapes, monumental architectural fantasies in the style of Piranesi, and grotesque, fantastic compositions that are reminiscent of the worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and Jacques Callot. His compositions are carefully constructed and built up of fine-meshed patterns of hatching, cross-hatching, stippling and dotted lines made with a roulette. Powerful chiaroscuro effects are achieved by the judicious use of aquatint.
Desmazières' virtuosity comes to the fore in his colour etchings. He uses several etching plates to create these technical tours de force. Desmazières' interest in the use of colour is also expressed in the prints that he has heightened with a brush.
The exhibition displays a representative selection of some sixty prints. The selected works provide an enlightening view of Desmazières' artistic growth and development, his choice of subjects and his immense technical skill. The Rembrandt House Museum regards informing a wide public about graphic techniques -- both historic and contemporary -- as one of its key tasks, and there will consequently be a particular focus on Desmazières' working methods. The inclusion of preliminary studies, preparatory drawings and proofs of various states will give the public an insight into the genesis of the prints. There is also an exploration of the often surprising effects that Desmazières succeeds in obtaining by using different types of paper and varying the way the etching plate is inked when pulling impressions of a print.
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Erik Desmazières a été décrit comme “le meilleur graveur français de sa génération” par Robert Flynn Johnson, ex-directeur de la Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts de San Francisco. Il a tenu de nombreuses expositions à Paris, London, Hamburg, Rome, Zurich, Osaka, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Vevey et San Francisco. On peut admirer ses oeuvres à la Bibliotèque Nationale de France, le Rijksmuseum,le British Museum, le Metropolitan Museum, le Brooklyn Museum, et la New York Public Library ainsi qu’à la Rembranthuis à Amsterdam.
cf aussi : www.carnavalet.paris.fr
Erik Desmazières est né à Rabat, Maroc, en 1948; il vit et travaille à Paris. Après l’obtention du diplôme de Sciences-Po, il suit les cours de gravure de la Ville de Paris, donnés par Jean Delpech. Sa première gravure répertoriée date de 1972. Il est Grand Prix des Arts de la Ville de Paris 1978;
Erik Desmazières est aujourd’hui le Président de la Société des Peintres-Graveurs, et depuis le 9 avril 2008 Académicien des Beaux-Arts.
Il fait parti des artistes de l’Art Fantastique, Visionnaire, dont les racines se trouvent chez des maîtres tels que Bresdin, Piranese, Callot et Dürer.
Son travail connaît un vif succès en Europe et en Amérique; ses oeuvres font partie de nombreuses collections publiques et privées.
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