Livre d’artiste
A$5,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books
[France : probably between 1970 and 1980]. A unique object created by Yvon Taillandier by overpainting the pages of a nineteenth century copy of the published score to the opera Lara by Louis-Aimé Maillart (1817-71), the volume measuring 275 x 200 mm, with 295 pages. Taillandier has painted 7 full-page and 34 double-page paintings within the first 81 pages of the musical score, some leaves painted recto only but most painted both recto and verso , to create a suite of works highly representative of the artist s distinctive absurdist style. The exterior of the book is rubbed and the spine perished, the book is signed by Taillandier in pen in the first image. Taillandier s imaginary landscapes are populated by fantastic figures: multi-limbed, contorting, sphinx-like hybrids, by turns menacing and self-devouring, playful and humorous, or sexual and fetishistic. Tallandier once described himself as a writer who paints , and language is indeed integral to all his painting. The artist s fascination with both the abstract nature of words their layers of poetic meaning and their concrete, glyphic quality, is evidenced by his repeated isolation and highlighting of individual words and phrases within the libretto of this musical score, transforming them, along with the musical notation, into part of the painting s dynamic. Yvon Taillandier writer, critic, painter and sculptor was born in Paris in 1926. His first solo exhibition was held in Lyon in 1942, but in 1950 he abandoned paintin
- Binding: Hardcover
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