Satié, Alain – Ple? Plon Sca Screlonu Ipilore Plisou. Hé? On T’a Reconnu Isidore Isou.
(Satié, Alain) Ple? Plon Sca Screlonu Ipilore Plisou. Hé? On T’a Reconnu Isidore Isou. Avec une suite de 8 photographies ciselées de l’auteur. Publications PSI. Paris. 1985. 13.5″ x 10.5″. Original photographs, colored by Satié, of the female nude with the artist’s furniture forming a sculptural backdrop. Mixed techniques incorporating hypergraphics, collage, rubber stamping, and letterism. Each photograph mounted and signed by Satié. Portfolio of gray-blue paper wrappers; paper title label on front. No. 9 in an editiion of 25 copies. Fine.
“Alain Satié was born on January 20, 1944 in Toulouse, France. After technical studies, he enrolled in the Fine Art School of Toulouse. Later, he established himself in Paris, where he joined the Lettrist movement in 1964. He soon became one of the central figures of Lettrism, both through his personal art works in many disciplines and through his activism on behalf of the movement.
“Painter, writer, architect, photographer, poet and critic, Alain Satié is also a professor of art history at the University of Leonardo da Vinci. His specialty is the study of the specifics of the current avant-garde, seeking to clarify its confusing state. In the visual arts, Alain Satié has explored an evolving collection of rigorous works that he continues to develop and enrich. His visual art is represented in numerous museums and private collections.” – Official website of Alain Satié.
“The graphic virtuosity of Alain Satié, who was educated as an industrial designer, helped him to construct a very personal vision of Roman letters. He reshaped them into acrobatic forms, paroxysmally bent above each other … Satié synthesized many human faces with his electronic-component-like signs, contrasting with particular care the highlights and the shadows. A fascination for the third dimension drove him finally to quit the canvas to cut his inscriptions and struggling letters into wood panels so that real shadows could project themselves onto the wall. He also glued on books, various objects and canvases, where they formed colored suns, myriads of the tiny letter-pasta that one can use to make soup with.” – Jean-Paul Curtay, Letterism and Hypergraphics, The Unknown Avant- Garde 1945-1985.
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