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Emmanuel Monziès is transposing living material like plants and bodies on paper or on canvas with a predilection for monotypes.
This complex living world we neglect, if not destroy, is revealed by shadows, imprints and drawings. “Printing life” is becoming the common thread of his artworks.
Rebel Plants is his last exhibition in 2017: These monotypes transform imprint of plants into abstraction. The printing plate is reused several times with additional inking and drawings which create an intriguing complexity from successive compositions.
Single Pose was an exhibition in 2016 with a unique model painted with the same point of view. Acrylics, etchings, inks and watercolours were medium used to explore this single pose. Each artwork became a piece in a chain link which question us about perception.
The tree has also been a research theme in recent months with the exploration of tortured forms of trunks and branches using various techniques such as ink, watercolor or monotype.
These artworks have been presented at personal and collective exhibitions in France, Italy, the United States, Spain and other countries.
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