Ernest Pignon Ernest
Ernest Pignon-Ernest, whose real name Ernest Pignon, is an artist born in 1942 in Nice ( France ). This is one of the initiators, with Daniel Buren and Gerard Zlotykamien , the urban art in France. Biography Haunted by the shadows of Nagasaki and Hiroshima , he stamped images painted, drawn, screen printed on fragile paper, on the walls of cities, in telephone booths, which are based in urban architecture, are accepted by people who defend their very slow degradation (Napoli). The photographic evidence accentuate this merger and keep the traces. Ernest Pignon-Ernest denounces constructed art for museums and exhibitions. Ernest Pignon-Ernest himself describes his work as a way to capture the essence of a place. It draws from the site's history, the memories, but also light, space. Then he comes to write an image prepared in his workshop. This image is usually a human figure drawing to scale 1, reproduced by screen printing. Ernest Pignon-Ernest installs its own work in the city overnight. Nourished by a cultural heritage combining Christian and pagan, Ernest Pignon-Ernest does not hesitate to draw on and cite the works of Caravaggio (as in his work on the streets of Naples). After his speech against the twinning Nice - Cape Town in 1974, Ernest Pignon-Ernest has played an important role in "The Artists of the world against apartheid." It has, for over twenty years, maintained close ties with South Africa. Party to Johannesburg in 2001 with the intention to conduct a project on the multicultural character of the country, he was taken to change the theme up on discovering the seriousness of the AIDS pandemic and listening to requests from organizations that fight cons announced the slaughter. After numerous meetings in hospitals, clinics, nurseries and in conjunction with associations, Ernest Pignon-Ernest has developed an image born of listening to those who live in the heart of this contemporary drama. Screen-printed on site to hundreds of copies, it has stuck together with people on the walls of the neighborhoods most affected of Warwick in Durban and Soweto Kliptown To differentiate from Edouard Pignon (the same initials carried to the confusion during a single exposure between the two of them), he redoubled his name behind his name. Works
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