Description
Graphic design: NNstudio and Mattéo Clavier, intern.
Printing: AZ Print, Liège
144 pages
Format: 19 × 30.2 cm
Binding: Perfect binding
Print run: 400 copies
ISBN: 978-2-931237-10-6
Legal deposit: D/2025/14941/07
Observe. Detach. Offer.
Share. Post. Display.
In your office. In your living room. In your kitchen or bathroom. Here. Elsewhere.
This work by Laurent Impeduglia lends itself to all these actions and all these places. It is not a publication like any other, just as the drawings it contains are unlike the charcoal works one might expect from the artist.
A selection of drawings on coloured paper unfolds across the pages. With their spontaneous strokes and slightly ‘cheap’ aesthetic, they could seem ‘rough around the edges’, like sketches or automatic drawings made at the corner of a table, placed there in an A4 sketchbook. However, this is not the case. When brought together, they reveal the uniqueness of Laurent Impeduglia’s approach. His way of summoning the collective imagination, with a sometimes disarming simplicity, whether through the graphic vocabulary borrowed from popular culture or through the particular tone that these colourful drawings bring to his subjects.
The art market is certainly regularly mentioned in these works, through references to its economy or the relationships that different players may have within it. But while there are numerous references, they above all reflect the artist’s unique perspective and stance towards his surroundings. Without being harshly critical, the aim is above all to question this environment while playing with stereotypes. By anchoring them in a broader cultural universe, sometimes tinged with humour, Laurent Impeduglia encounters a new approach to art and how it works, one that is open and accessible to all. It is an approach that evolves both in its perception and in the sharing it generates.
By its very design, this edition is decidedly unlike any other. In the artist’s style, it subverts the art market as it is commonly perceived. Taking the form of a notepad with detachable sheets, it invites us to participate in the evolving dynamic thus conferred on art. Each of us can now become, in turn, a collector and curator. Everyone can take hold of the work to spread and share it. Art is everywhere, all the time. Sometimes all it takes is a simple gesture, such as tearing a page from a notebook, to make it accessible.
Céline Eloy