Theses installations are inspired by dreams that I’ve made. They are connected with objects of my childhood : A ladder in the sea, a chair with long legs, curtains on the shore. They often appear suspended on the horizon.
Theses memories-objects transfigure the relationship to space and time. Immobiles witness of the sun’s course, they are a link between times : the buried past, the flickering present, the lights to come. In the center of these infinite spaces, theses surrealist installations explore the vast structure of memory and the enigma of time.
The Prints
The artworks we proposed is entirely made by hand in the finest workshop in Paris. The analog images are printed on fine art Baryta paper to bring the best structure, deep blacks and striking contrasts. Then, the photographs are framed in a traditional atelier, specialized in framing art exhibition. Each frame is assembled by hand. All photographs are limited editions of 30 prints, signed and numbered by the Artist. The photographs are delivered including the natural oak frame. Theses pieces are exclusively available at Atelier Etienne.
The Lithographs
The Lithographs are made in collaboration with the workshop Idem Paris. They are printed on a Marinoni flatbed machines and Rives BFK white paper. The idem printing studio is one of the oldest parisian print house founded in the late 19th. Artist such as Picasso, Chagall, Matisse or Miró used to work on the same machines. Nowadays, contemporary artist such as Jean- Michel Alberola, Sophie Calle, JR or David Lynch are regular customers of the atelier. All lithographs are signed on the bottom hand right corner (lead signature) and numbered on the bottom left hand corner. The lithograph is delivered unframed and rolled for easier transport. Here the French Artist Etienne Rougery-Herbaut signing his lithograph entitled The man with the black hat.