Ernest Pignon-Ernest Face aux Murs – Delpire 2010 ISBN 9782851072535 – Book

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Ernest Pignon-Ernest: Facing the Walls, published by Delpire, 2010, ISBN 9782851072535, paperback, 236 pages in French, soft cover, very good condition, presents the major work of the artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest, a pioneer of mural collage and urban intervention, who affixes his drawings directly onto city walls to reach the widest possible audience.

There are artists who work in the quiet of their studios, who only emerge from their ivory tower for a dedicated exhibition. And then there are others, whose work concerns as broad an audience as possible. To reach this audience, as varied as it is in age and culture, they do not hesitate to go to them, to speak their language, to strike them in their most vivid and specific way. Ernest Pignon-Ernest is one of these. He is even the archetype of this approach, for he pushes it to its extreme.

He goes to the home of the man he has decided to speak to. He goes to his house. To his street. And the drawing he has prepared in his studio, which carries his message, he himself affixes to the wall of the house he has chosen. The message is thus exposed. To all the winds, to all passersby. It is concentrated in a place that multiplies throughout the city. This is what one man, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, says to other men.

And whether it is a street where children play, in Naples or Ramallah, a vegetable market, or a staircase leading to a monument, it is seen, accepted, understood. Ernest Pignon-Ernest knows what he wants to say. And he says it with a force that has no equal in contemporary painting. With a concision and a quality of line worthy of the golden age.

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