Comments on: The art of Erik Desmazières http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: comte Alexandre de Bothuri Bàthory http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-121557 comte Alexandre de Bothuri Bàthory Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:35:16 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-121557 The Art of Érik Desmazières speaks to the soul and past memories of our lives... Nobody can escape his labyrinthes and his Babel Towels trademarks of his works... His Prince of Thulé... his warriors or chiefs of wars wear coat of arms and helmets which are reminiscent of the Medicis' s Era and they are androgynous, sensual and ambiguous in their quest of blood and tears like the Saint John of Da Vinci pointing with his fingers the sky for knowledge from above... Piranesi, Callot, Escher, Rembrandt, Folon, Goya, Franken... be proud... Desmazières is not a copist of your works, but one of you... a true master, a gentleman and an alchimist able to use the past and the present to foresee the future... and more Alexandre de Bothuri Bàthory The Art of Érik Desmazières speaks to the soul and past memories of our lives… Nobody can escape his labyrinthes and his Babel Towels trademarks of his works… His Prince of Thulé… his warriors or chiefs of wars wear coat of arms and helmets which are reminiscent of the Medicis’ s Era and they are androgynous, sensual and ambiguous in their quest of blood and tears like the Saint John of Da Vinci pointing with his fingers the sky for knowledge from above… Piranesi, Callot, Escher, Rembrandt, Folon, Goya, Franken… be proud… Desmazières is not a copist of your works, but one of you… a true master, a gentleman and an alchimist able to use the past and the present to foresee the future… and more
Alexandre de Bothuri Bàthory

]]> By: fitch-febvrel gallery http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-97056 fitch-febvrel gallery Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:13:47 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-97056 Your readers might be interested to know where they can see more recent work by Desmazières, and Trignac as well. We have represented both in the U.S. for decades. Desmazières is having three solo museum shows this year, in Pisa (current), Savannah (May-Oct) and Montreal (Sept) Andrew Fitch, Dir. Your readers might be interested to know where they can see more recent work by Desmazières, and Trignac as well. We have represented both in the U.S. for decades. Desmazières is having three solo museum shows this year, in Pisa (current), Savannah (May-Oct) and Montreal (Sept)
Andrew Fitch, Dir.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-90370 John Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:51:50 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-90370 Thanks Stefan. Great work, I've bookmarked the site. Thanks Stefan. Great work, I’ve bookmarked the site.

]]> By: stefan http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-90349 stefan Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:48:10 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-90349 reminds me of Peter Gric take a look : http://www.gric.at/home.htm reminds me of Peter Gric

take a look : http://www.gric.at/home.htm

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]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-33823 John Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:36:48 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-33823 Well...the "man" part is correct... As I said elsewhere, if I wasn't preoccupied with other things I'd probably be happy doing something very similar to Monsieur Trignac. But I've always been restless and enjoy working in different areas and media. I'm often envious of those who can stay put, it's certainly better for your career! Well…the “man” part is correct… As I said elsewhere, if I wasn’t preoccupied with other things I’d probably be happy doing something very similar to Monsieur Trignac. But I’ve always been restless and enjoy working in different areas and media. I’m often envious of those who can stay put, it’s certainly better for your career!

]]> By: peacay http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-33759 peacay Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:52:50 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-33759 <i>None of the current crop of internationally known British artists could be said to be possessed of much imagination.</i> So you're saying you're not an international man of mystery then? '- ) None of the current crop of internationally known British artists could be said to be possessed of much imagination.

So you’re saying you’re not an international man of mystery then?
‘- )

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-33410 John Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:07:49 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-33410 Oh, good find, I hadn't seen this guy's work before. He's now bookmarked. This kind of work seems particularly Continental and I'm still not sure why that is. The French and Belgians are more accepting of fantasy in art which no doubt helps, here it's always been regarded with suspicion. None of the current crop of internationally known British artists could be said to be possessed of much imagination. Oh, good find, I hadn’t seen this guy’s work before. He’s now bookmarked.

This kind of work seems particularly Continental and I’m still not sure why that is. The French and Belgians are more accepting of fantasy in art which no doubt helps, here it’s always been regarded with suspicion. None of the current crop of internationally known British artists could be said to be possessed of much imagination.

]]> By: peacay http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-33380 peacay Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:38:49 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-33380 Speaking of prints of libraries, have you come across Rolf Escher? http://www.rolf-escher.de/ (there's a little more around: I posted a few links the other day/week) ps. Love Desmazières. Thanks! Appropriate you link to Trignac: that's who I first thought about. My we have good taste! Speaking of prints of libraries, have you come across Rolf Escher?

http://www.rolf-escher.de/

(there’s a little more around: I posted a few links the other day/week)

ps. Love Desmazières. Thanks! Appropriate you link to Trignac: that’s who I first thought about. My we have good taste!

]]> By: faouz raoui http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-21188 faouz raoui Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:23:11 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-21188 i love your blog <a href="http://www.cjbuy.com/forum" rel="nofollow">arabic forum</a> i love your blog
arabic forum

]]> By: stroppyrabbit http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-16513 stroppyrabbit Sat, 19 May 2007 00:07:55 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-16513 Fantastic - sort of a cross between MC Escher and Gustav Doré. Fantastic – sort of a cross between MC Escher and Gustav Doré.

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-6994 John Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:36:02 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-6994 I swear I saw more of the library pictures somewhere a while ago but I can't find them now. Interesting seeing how he elaborated on Borges' conception of a monotonous?and endless?honeycomb of rooms. Curious the way so many French artists have have an interest in this kind of imagery. One of the Myst creators has a nice blog of his own here: http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/ I swear I saw more of the library pictures somewhere a while ago but I can’t find them now. Interesting seeing how he elaborated on Borges’ conception of a monotonous?and endless?honeycomb of rooms.

Curious the way so many French artists have have an interest in this kind of imagery.

One of the Myst creators has a nice blog of his own here:

http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/

]]> By: Callum James http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/27/the-art-of-erik-desmazieres/comment-page-1/#comment-6982 Callum James Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:13:36 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1346#comment-6982 Hi, love this stuff and am slightly in awe... It reminds me in a strange way of th computer game myst, (particularly the Library of Babel stuff) inasmuch as I always think of Myst as less of a computer game and more of a 'place to visit' - the library images make me feel a little the same, not so much 2 dimenstional pictures, more of a place to visit and get lost in... wonderful... Hi, love this stuff and am slightly in awe… It reminds me in a strange way of th computer game myst, (particularly the Library of Babel stuff) inasmuch as I always think of Myst as less of a computer game and more of a ‘place to visit’ – the library images make me feel a little the same, not so much 2 dimenstional pictures, more of a place to visit and get lost in… wonderful…

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