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The little utopian house
2002
Jean Michel ALBEROLA
54 x 67 cm
Series of 11 lithographs on Lana Royal paper
Early in his career, Alberola decided lithography was
an “elegant and democratic” activity that would facilitate the dissemination of his works. The eleven prints entitled The Little Utopian House were produced as part of a Japanese project for the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial: a building adorned with frescoes designed
to house the community hall in the mountain village of Matsudai, northwest of Tokyo. Whereas lithographs are usually conceived as an extension of the painted walls (which they immortalize when the latter are impermanent), here they preceded the making of the frescoes.
Early in his career, Alberola decided lithography was
an “elegant and democratic” activity that would facilitate the dissemination of his works. The eleven prints entitled The Little Utopian House were produced as part of a Japanese project for the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial: a building adorned with frescoes designed
to house the community hall in the mountain village of Matsudai, northwest of Tokyo. Whereas lithographs are usually conceived as an extension of the painted walls (which they immortalize when the latter are impermanent), here they preceded the making of the frescoes.
Jean Michel ALBEROLA
France
Born in 1953
There’s no painting without writing! Such is the credo of Jean-Michel Alberola who, among all contemporary artists, has undoubtedly been one of the greatest driving forces behind using words in pictures. Associated with the Figuration Libre movement (the French equivalent of Neo-Expressionism or Bad Painting),which sought a new path between figurative and abstract art in the 1980s, he discovered his own genre in a jubilant interaction of text and image. Acknowledging the twofold influence of Marcel Duchamp and Marcel Broodthaers, indiscriminately citing Kant, Hemingway, Hegel and La Boétie, he is a protean artist who produces paintings and drawings as well as photographs, films, postcards and other objets trouvés to explore as many ways as possible of expressing the world.
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Jean Michel ALBEROLA
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