SCULPTURES AFRICAINES DANS LA COLLECTION DUREND-DESSERT

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Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert are known for their commitment to contemporary art, where they have continued to question the art while demonstrating their interest in the issues inherent in the human condition, and forms close to a primitivist aesthetic. Parallel to their gallery business they have built over the last twenty years, a collection of African art reveals a predilection for works, loaded or ravines, accumulative sculptures or fragments of the sublime, are shaped in part by their environment . The look Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert deal primitive art can be seen as a development of the history of Primitivism in relation to European art of the late twentieth century. So it is with Jean-Louis Paudrat they chose to speak for “Fragments of the Living.” The constants woven interrelations between the works, the forms and materials, trace the many facets of this learning what the experience of an African art collector and illustrate the teaching which is the fruit. To translate their sensitivity beyond words, and to “visually feel what can only be didactically explained” the Durand-Dessert developed for this book unprecedented images launching device and uses the talent of the photographer Hughes Dubois. “To love an object, it is” recognized “in every sense of the term, resonate with him to the point that it becomes an extension of our body and our consciousness. “Whether they wanted to share that intimacy, and to access their vision of a re-enchanted world in their eyes, have helped to capture the spirit of a collection, of which there is no doubt it is, truly, their work.