This book is a tribute by a leading contemporary graphic artist to his intaglio printer.<\/p>\n
Erik Desmazi\u00e8res\u2019s first love was drawing and he began engraving in the Ville de Paris studios from 1971. Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 joined the Leblanc studio, a famous and ancient Parisian intaglio printer\u2019s workshop in 1969. It was here, on Rue Saint-Jacques, the printers\u2019 quarter since the seventeenth century, where they met: in this corner of Paris imbued with history.<\/p>\n
In the spring of 1978, Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 opened his own studio at 11 Rue Hittorf, by the side of the town hall in the tenth arrondissement in Paris. The printer and the artist then established a professional bond that has lasted up to the present day. During the four decades of their work together, they have made over 200 prints and no fewer than 20,000 proofs in various formats; their preparation benefited greatly from the skill and noteworthy talent of Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9, who was awarded the title of Ma\u00eetre d\u2019Artin 2006.<\/p>\n
While Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 made the prints, Erik Desmazi\u00e8res began to draw his surroundings, of which he was much inspired. The result was a set of seven large engravings made from 1979 onwards depicting the studio and its wonderful machines from different angles. The place, with its glass roofs, glass partitions, presses, and dilapidated appearance, was inspirational for the artist.<\/p>\n
In 2006, Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 was forced to leave his studio, which was to be demolished. He moved to a studio in Villa du Lavoir, near Porte Saint-Martin, not far from where he worked previously. The new studio was far more \u201cmodern\u201d and more maze-like, but just as inspiring and gave rise to an engraving of the studio just before its conversion: Atelier Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 VIII<\/em>, 2018. The renovated studio offered the engraver the chance to make a new work of the space, which had a completely different layout: Atelier Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 IX<\/em>.<\/p>\n This book is published to coincide with the exhibition to be held at Galerie Documents 15, Rue de l\u2019\u00c9chaud\u00e9, in Paris, in Spring 2019. It includes all the drawings, engravings, and proofs, enhanced by the addition of colour, showing the full series of studios, right up to the present one. It also enables the reader to explore one of the very last remaining studios still operating in Paris and to admire the exemplary and trusting collaboration between an artist and his printer, who today works with two young collaborators, B\u00e9reng\u00e8re Lipreau and Domitille Ara\u00ef.<\/p>\n The book offers a preface by the art historian Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat and covers all the works published by the Mus\u00e9e Carnavalet in its catalogue for the Paris \u00e0 grands traits\u00a0<\/em>exhibition in 2006\u201307, which is now out of print.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat\u00a0<\/strong>is an art historian and was born in Paris in 1949. For many years he worked at R\u00e9union de mus\u00e9es nationnaux, then at the Institut national d\u2019histoire de l\u2019art. He has written a monograph on Seurat (Skira, 1990), a study of Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl(Hazan, 2003), and essays on various writers, poets, and painters. He has also translated several works by Roberto Longhi, The Life of a Painter<\/em>, by Gino Severini (Hazan, 2011), and recently The Originality of Thomas Jones\u00a0<\/em>by Lawrence Gowing (Fage editions, 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This book is a tribute by a leading contemporary graphic artist to his intaglio printer. Erik Desmazi\u00e8res\u2019s first love was drawing and he began engraving in the Ville de Paris studios from 1971. Ren\u00e9 Taz\u00e9 joined the Leblanc studio, a famous and ancient Parisian intaglio printer\u2019s workshop in 1969. It was here, on Rue Saint-Jacques,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22107,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17890","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contemporary-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17890"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}