2023-04-30 12:02:49
Writer and draftsman, Frédéric Pajak admires the writers who, from Walter Benjamin to Emily Dickinson, from Léautaud to Pessoa, haunt the pages of Uncertain manifestothis great work in nine volumes, and the designers whose works he publishes, Topor, Yersin, Mix & Remix… The tireless creator goes even further by organizing in Arles, his adoptive city, the Festival of Drawing, the first of which edition is held from April 22 to May 14.
Dunce derivative
Drawing, “this language that brings us together”, is the childhood and infancy of humanity. Decorating the walls of prehistoric caves, it is the first known artistic language; scribbled on the nursery wallpaper, it is the first manifestation of the creative gesture. It precedes painting, it is worth more than a long speech, it is the derivative of the dunce and the commercial framework, it makes people laugh, it causes scandal… “In short, this great language lacked an open festival, which is not limited not to this or that trend, nor to the sole criterion of notoriety”, writes Frédéric Pajak in the foreword to Drawing Festival – The Catalog.
Masters and troublemakers
Coming from various backgrounds, 40 designers were summoned to Arles, contemporary troublemakers and giants of times long past. A great imagination of words, Victor Hugo also had a famous pencil stroke. The titan of letters rubs shoulders with the faithful traveling companions of the artistic director, Micaël, Anna Sommer, Noyau… Vuillemin, the master of the dirty line, meets Claire Forgeot, poetic traveler. The smoky Martial Leiter resonates with the reds of Aloïse, a great figure in art brut. The iconoclast Pavel Schmidt spawns with the hyperrealist Emilienne Farny…
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Credit where credit is due: a drawing by Sempé is on the cover of the catalogue. We see a hundred characters crossing the sky in single file on a tightrope. No doubt there are some 8 billion of them behind, poor bipedal insects suspended in the void waiting for the fall. The learning of ontology goes through drawing.
Design. Frédéric Pajak, “Drawing Festival – The Catalog”, The Sketchbooks, 192 p.
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