Éric Manigaud

by Éric Manigaud

Aggregate of plastic arts, Eric Manigaud, historian, unearths the first scientific photographs testifying to a repressed past (first world war etc) and proposes to reveal the dark side by the use of the pencil and the graphite , as a designer. If the artist by means of a projection by the magic lantern endeavors to copy his drawing on the photograph, thus promoting, by this at first glance mimetic representation, a certain confusion of the mediums, his creative enterprise is not reducible to a simple transcription operation. By using graphite, it reinforces the effect of reality, thus...