This copper engraved this summer takes up a theme dear to Paul Valéry; in a text written in 1919 (Regard sur le monde actuel), he questions the human ingenuity capable of building mechanisms so complicated and perfected that he is no longer able to control and conduct. For the writer, "the time of the finite world begins". This cry of anguish at the growing complexity of modern civilization crosses the generations and reaches us, on the threshold of the new millennium. In this large drypoint-finished etching, a small starry dodecahedron (left) gives life to an increasingly impetuous movement, nature gradually transforms itself into a labyrinth where men and mechanisms intertwine.
Copper plate: 598 mm x 201 mm, 2021
Etching on a stitched Oxford paper on Hahnemuehle paper, black Luxe/bistre ink, paper size: : 780 x 500 mm. Printed by the author on a star press Puliti.
