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Dans cette série des papiers-pleins, l’artiste cherche à révéler la texture du matériau par l’incision et l’arrachage en bandes obliques régulières. Les premiers papier-pleins horizontaux font la transition avec les lignes d’écritures de la série qui précède celle-ci.
Le papier Velin est contrecollé sur le support puis arraché à l’aide de baguettes de bois.
« Dans un premier temps, l’arrachage est doublé d’interventions actives, lacération, atomisation et pulvérisation du papier-fond, pointage et marquage de la bande avant collage […], dessin du contour des bandes avant décollage, etc., et par là même se font jour plusieurs thèmes : le tracé-traversée de la ligne médiane, le creusement et le débordement du contour papier, le tracé et la limitation du cadre figuré, l’empreinte des boîtes planes, le double écran-papier superposé et ouvert, etc. » Jean Degottex
In the beginning of the 1970s, Degottex brought painting itself into question. He abandoned paintbrushes and began an investigation of pictorial practice in which he extolled the material parameters of the medium. He reinvented his techniques by developing new gestures that no longer pertained to painting but rather to the canvas as a two-dimensional surface. He tore, cut, folded, unfolded pieces of paper that he glued onto the canvas. The first torn paper appeared in 1969, and the first papier-pleins in 1974-1975.
In this series of papier-pleins, Degottex attempts to reveal the texture of the material by making incisions and tearing away in regularly-spaced, oblique strips. The first horizontal papier-pleins are transition works that relate back to the lines of writing in the preceding series.
The vellum paper has been glued onto the surface then torn off using wooden sticks.
‘At first, to the tearing I add active interventions like laceration, atomisation, and pulverisation of the paper surface, scoring and marking the strip before gluing it on […], tracing the edge of the strips before ungluing them, etc., and in this process a number of themes emerge: the tracing-traversing of the midline, the excavation and overflowing of the paper edge, the tracing and limitation of the frame that is depicted there, the imprint of flat boxes, the double screen-paper overlayed and open, etc.’ Jean Degottex
Died in 1988 in Paris