The result of close collaboration with the lithographic workshops of Stéphane Guilbaud and Deborah Chaney, the exhibition at the Château de Vogüé offers the opportunity to experience an exceptional encounter with the art of printmaking.
It features more than 70 works representative of this discipline, signed by world-renowned contemporary artists: Pierre Alechinsky, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Garouste, Authouart, Pierre Monestier, Barthélémy Toguo, Velickovic, Enki Bilal, Moebius, Yan Pei Ming, Zao Wou Ki…
This major event also highlights the work of emblematic American artists including Art Spiegelman, rarely exhibited in France.
Filmed in the workshops of Paris, New York, Dordogne, the videos bear witness to the complicity that develops between the artist and the master printer during the creation of a work on lithographic stone and its printing on an old press.
Printmaking has been and remains today a privileged vector for the expression and dissemination of artists' work. The diversity of techniques and their intrinsic qualities make art printing a mode of creation in its own right, once enjoyed only by collectors and now accessible to a wider audience. It is also the vehicle for the democratization of art. Through its technical quality, its vocation as an original work, lithography, engraving, screen printing, and printmaking, in the broad sense of the term, are to painting what records are to music: an ideal vehicle for the dissemination of works that can be reproduced without distorting them.
Lithography is an authentic original work of art that carries within it the imagination and sensitivity of the artist. Unlike engraving, it offers a great diversity of expression: pencil, brush, pen, wash, chalk, stamp, etc. This printmaking technique uses the chemical properties of limestone previously treated with a "mordant" that fixes the drawing. When inking, the moistened stone refuses ink on intact surfaces, while the drawn areas will be "ink-loving". Creating a polychrome print requires drawing as many stones as there are colors. Precise identification then allows them to be printed one after the other on the litho press.
Stephane GUILBAUD
From March 30 to June 30, 2024
