-“Inside the Minds of Stéphane Blanquet”- MASSIVE Hardcover Artbook •Imported• For Sale

published in October 2020

bilingual edition (French/English)

20 × 26 cm (hardcover, cloth cover)

360 pages (color and black & white illustrations)

FRENCH IMPORT

For nearly a year, Stéphane Blanquet has been unleashing his sprawling imagination throughout the entire space of the Halle Saint-Pierre, a Parisian temple of outsider and art brut : a carte blanche that also gives him the opportunity to invite artists with whom he shares a taste for our "underground humanity." The aim: to affirm the vitality of these individual and autonomous artistic expressions that break with conventions and dominant codes, overturning established values of "beautiful" and "ugly," "good" and "bad" taste.

A draftsman, visual artist, stage director, and filmmaker, Stéphane Blanquet is considered one of the leading figures of the underground art scene. Through a profusion of images, forms, and sounds since the late 1980s-across artworks, installations, live performances and stage designs, independent publishing, urban art, animated films, and music

—Stéphane Blanquet shocks, provokes, disturbs, and delights in creating unease by manipulating our frustrations and his own obsessions. His tortured, anguished universe is populated by men, women, and children whom we see possessed by the demon of perversity. But this tension between innocence and cruelty, between sexual jubilation and the death drive, is not a hopeless despair. Blanquet exorcises the repressed, resurrects the flesh, bodies freed from guilt and the fear of death. The artist enriches his work by passionately exploring the most varied technologies and techniques, from the most traditional to the most avant-garde: pen drawing, lithography, digital tapestry, computer tools...

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris, from September 5, 2020 to January 2, 2022.