“{…} His work shows a commitment to the service of the living, a bit as if he was giving it a voice. His drawings bear witness to the destruction of nature caused by humans. The artist practices a lot of pattern drawing in his notebooks, he draws fragile wooded areas. He immerses himself in the landscape it represents and meets activists, artists and ecological associations in France and Germany. His drawings entitled Open-Pit Mine (2020) show, for example, the monstrous excavations carried out in the Hambach open-cast mine, in North Rhine-Westphalia. The place that the artist draws does not contain any vegetation, and white and empty lines are left in the work to show the disastrous intervention of humans on the environment. This overexploited area to the detriment of one of the last primary forests in Germany is largely responsible for CO2 emissions in this country. Here, the artist witnesses the disaster and informs us of the ongoing destruction through drawing: Indian ink and paper as the only weapons to alert us and defend the territory, the living. He puts his art at the service of ecology, he makes it a voice with very modest means. {…}”.
L’artiste et le Vivant, pour un art écologique, inclusif et
engagé, Valérie Belmokhtar, PYRAMYD Éditions, Paris, october 2022
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engagé
(The artist and the Living, for ecological, inclusive and committed art)
Valérie Belmokhtar, PYRAMYD Éditions, Paris
engagé
(The artist and the Living, for ecological, inclusive and committed art)
Valérie Belmokhtar, PYRAMYD Éditions, Paris