New Waves

Co-published with the Cnap Nouvelles Vagues invites you to discover the works printed art by twenty-five contemporary artists. This project, by creating a a place for meetings and exchanges of know-how between artists and artisans art, perpetuates the spirit of commission programs carried out since 1989 by the National Center for Plastic Arts. Aquatint, etching, rough, photogravure grain, lithography, drypoint, screen printing: so many techniques requested to work and test the notion of reproducibility. The tenfold increase in gesture intensifies the magic of the images while preserving the mystery of the artistic process. Detail views and plans overall, fields and reverse fields show twenty-five adventures singular, where the definitions of the original and the multiple. The work includes, in addition to detailed and illustrated notices of each project, an unpublished text by exhibition curator Joël Riff “Freedom, originality, usefulness”, different stages of work as well as a glossary of printing techniques. The twenty-five artists are: Xavier Antin, Laetitia Benat, Pierrette Bloch, Gaëlle Chotard, Stéphane Dafflon, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Lionel Estève, Laureline Galliot, Jochen Gerner, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Cécile Hartmann, Hippolyte Hentgen, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Bernard Joisten, Manuela Marques, Vera Molnar, Gerald Petit, François Pétrovitch, Émilie Pitoiset, Julien Prévieux, Pierre Savatier, Clémence Seilles, Charlotte Tanguy, Patrick Tosani and Jean-Luc Verna.