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Ernest Pignon-Ernest
"I work on cities, on what they hide, their past, and the memories that haunt them."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Notes of biography
Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in Nice in 1942. He studied in his hometown and first worked in architecture. From a very young age he regularly has solo exhibitions. Very quickly, the artist becomes interested in the city and produces, over a course of time, numerous urban interventions that bring him notoriety.
Pignon-Ernest commits himself, he chooses the city, out of challenge or necessity, permeates all aspects to the extreme (drawing, photography, etc) will immerge into history and the legend. It will be Le Cap in Nice in 1974 at the occasion of the of twinning of the city that he rejects ‘Rimbaud’ in 1978 and it will be Naples in 1988 that will offer him its brutal light and its stubborn past, Soweto, its engagement against apartheid. He founds ‘Artists of the World Against Apartheid’ with Antonio Saura and Jacques Derrida. Outside of the merchant circles, Pignon-Ernest glues large silk-screen paintings on the walls of the cities that he intervenes where … the telephone cabins of Paris as ‘these are places that reflect the city’. Fascinated by the first gestures of prehistoric Man, he produces ‘Les Arbrorigenes’ (The Aborigines trees) in 1984.
The artist likes to mix on paper the portraits of famous musicians, writers (‘Tête a Tête’ in 1997 with Antonin Artaud) or poets. Pignon-Ernest pays tribute. Will he intervene in New York or in India or elsewhere? Always wanting to open the eyes of the spectator tolook at misery, poverty, immigration, racism, epidemics (South Africa again in 2001-2002 with Aids). His art, often ephemeral, has meaning.
Ernest Pignon-Ernest has never understood art, his art, encorporates a total engagement: political, poetic, plastic. His work is found in numerous international museums.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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To read about the artist :
- « Ernest Pignon Ernest : Rimbaud Regards », par A. Avila, Ed Aréa, 1986
- « Ernest Pignon Ernest », P. Jung, Ville de Belfort, 1988
- « Ernest Pignon Ernest », Musée d’Evreux, 1994
- « Ernest Pignon Ernest », MAMAC, Nice, 1995
- « Ernest Pignon-Ernest, la monographie », A. Velter, Ed. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2007
- « Le Tao du torero », André Velter, Ed. Actes Sud, 2014
- « Pignon-Ernest, Prisons », G. Mordillat, Ed. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2014
- « Pour l’amour de l'amour. Figures de l’extase », André Velter, Ed. Gallimard, 2015
- « Pignon-Ernest, De traits en empreintes », M.-J. Mondzain, S. Longh, Ed. Gallimard, 2016
- « Ceux de la poésie vécue », A. Velter, Ed. Actes Sud, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Ernest Pignon Ernest : propos recueillis », E. Couturier, Herscher, Paris, 199
- « Interview d'Ernest Pignon-Ernest », C. Gerini, in Street Art Magazine N°4, 2016
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Stamp by Ernest Pignon-Ernest
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
Artist's handwritten document
Private collection / This document is not for sale
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Art movements
+ PHOTOGRAPHY PERIOD 1975 / 1975- / John Divolo, Lucas Samaras, etc.
+ STREET ART / 1970-2020 / Above, Jef Aérosol, Blek le Rat, Niclas Castello, David Choe, Codex Urbanus, Martha Cooper, Combo, Darco, Escif, Shepard Faired, Futura 2000, Shamsia Hassani, Invader, Jace, JonOne, JR, Eduardo Kobra, Jérôme Mesnager, Miss.Tic, Monsieur Chat, Roa, Spy, Malina Suliman, Taki 183, Vhils, Gérard Zlotykamien.
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