Graphic design: NNstudio and Matt\u00e9o Clavier, intern.
\nPrinting: AZ Print, Li\u00e8ge
\n144 pages
\nFormat: 19 \u00d7 30.2 cm
\nBinding: Perfect binding
\nPrint run: 400 copies
\nISBN: 978-2-931237-10-6
\nLegal deposit: D\/2025\/14941\/07<\/p>\n
Observe. Detach. Offer.<\/em> In your office. In your living room. In your kitchen or bathroom. Here. Elsewhere. A selection of drawings on coloured paper unfolds across the pages. With their spontaneous strokes and slightly \u2018cheap\u2019 aesthetic, they could seem \u2018rough around the edges\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n 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. C\u00e9line Eloy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n BAD HORSE is an artist’s book that blends satire and visual poetry. Comprising 144 original drawings, it takes the form of a notebook filled with caustic humour about the art world. Each page is accessible, spontaneous, detachable and ready to be framed \u2014 a na\u00efve evocation of an illusory democratisation of contemporary creation.<\/p>\n Through these unapologetic drawings, Laurent Impeduglia paints a fierce and lucid portrait of the artistic microcosm: artists, gallery owners, collectors and institutions rub shoulders in a ballet that is as absurd as it is familiar. The artist unfilteredly caricatures the mechanisms of the art market, the symbolic and commercial value of the work, and the power games and egos that drive this milieu.<\/p>\n Between tenderness and irony, poetry and punk attitude, BAD HORSE offers a biting reflection on creation, recognition and the precariousness of positions: one day a winner, the next a loser. Behind the derision lies a vision of the world that is at once gentle, lucid and resolutely human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[45],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1648","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-hematomes-editions","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nShare. Post. Display.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n
\nBy 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.<\/p>\n