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Dessin de feu

Bernard Aubertin

1970

Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. ...

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Dessin de feu

Bernard Aubertin

1970

N.p.

Burnt matches on paper

67 × 52 cm

Unique

Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. Almost an acheiropoieton (a Greek term defining an image made without the artist’s hand), the resulting multiple hovers between rigorous structure and the uncontrollable trace of combustion.

Aubertin’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the "Burning Matter" exhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, and other artists who have explored fire as both medium and subject.

N.p.

Burnt matches on paper

67 × 52 cm

Unique

Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. Almost an acheiropoieton (a Greek term defining an image made without the artist’s hand), the resulting multiple hovers between rigorous structure and the uncontrollable trace of combustion.

Aubertin’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the "Burning Matter" exhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, and other artists who have explored fire as both medium and subject.

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Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. Almost an acheiropoieton (a Greek term defining an image made without the artist’s hand), the resulting multiple hovers between rigorous structure and the uncontrollable trace of combustion.

Aubertin’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the "Burning Matter" exhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, and other artists who have explored fire as both medium and subject.

N.p.

Burnt matches on paper

67 × 52 cm

Unique

Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. Almost an acheiropoieton (a Greek term defining an image made without the artist’s hand), the resulting multiple hovers between rigorous structure and the uncontrollable trace of combustion.

Aubertin’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the "Burning Matter" exhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, and other artists who have explored fire as both medium and subject.

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Bernard Aubertin, a key figure of Nouveau Réalisme and the ZERO movement, used fire as a drawing tool. Matches, arranged in tight rows, were set alight, leaving carbonized tips and soot-blackened plumes across the paper. Almost an acheiropoieton (a Greek term defining an image made without the artist’s hand), the resulting multiple hovers between rigorous structure and the uncontrollable trace of combustion.

Aubertin’s multiple was exhibited in 2022 as part of the "Burning Matter" exhibition at Studio 454 in Venice, alongside works by Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, and other artists who have explored fire as both medium and subject.

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