An unruly imagination on the page
Jean Dubuffet questioned polished artistic conventions through experimental materials, drawing, writing and printmaking. His Hourloupe imagery builds irregular, interlocking shapes out of emphatic outlines and areas of red, blue and white.
La Botte à Nique brings that visual language into an artist’s book. Text and image become part of the same unfolding field, giving the turning page a role in the work’s movement and playful complexity.
Works at Breething Books
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Books, portfolios and editions
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