Description

Neither this poster nor its motif have been reproduced on other posters. The artist began his activity in the summer of 1946, with three small pieces, now cast in bronze and preserved as a reminder of these beginnings. There began his experience, which lasted more than twenty years.

During this creative process he made ceramics, ceramic engraving, ceramic painting and ceramic sculpture. A process of invention, imagination, play with forms and spaces that recall Picasso’s words quoted by Françoise Gilot: “If one is concerned with what is full, that is, with the object as a positive form, the surrounding space is reduced to almost nothing. If one is concerned above all with the space surrounding the object, the object is reduced to almost nothing. What is more interesting, what is inside or what is outside the form? When one looks at Cézanne’s apples, one sees that he did not really paint apples as such. What he did was paint very well the weight of space on that round form. What counts is the pressure of space on form.”

In this case, the calligraphy plays with the surface of the poster and thus becomes a pictorial work.