Jacques Clauzel

Intimately woven together with his pictorial research, engraving is, for Clauzel, an astonishing area for experiment, "a new and indispensable element", "a base for taking things further". With a tremendous appetite, he explores line by piling on and combining techniques, before diverting and reinventing them. A period of extensive research focusing on papers (crumpled paper, torn and pasted, large papers mounted on canvas, works on kraft paper). In 1983, Jacques Clauzel bought a printing press to print his first etchings and produced his first printings. In the middle of the eighties, the essential themes which identify his artwork are present in all the works. A limited edition available from France.