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MURON, Jacques
Aigrette (original French title) Pure-line engraving printed on chine-collé.Edition of 80. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Very small scrape...
View full detailsJacques MURON
Born in 1950, Jacques Muron began his artistic career studying drawing and printmaking at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, graduating in 1973. He received two prestigious awards for further study; first, he was awarded the Paul-Louis Weiller Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1982. Then from 1983 through 1985, he was a Fellow in Residence at the Villa Médicis, having won the award formerly known as the Prix de Rome.
Finding the sublime within a mundane object, and with mathematical precision for rendering the tiniest details with the traditional tools of the centuries-old printmaking medium, the work of Jacques Muron comes across as a meditation on what defines an ordinary object and the nature of perceived value. His labor-intensive prints bring every detail of the subjects he renders into laser-sharp focus, suggesting that each minute thread is equally essential to the perceived whole. His detailed renderings often sit within pristine white vacuums of space, as objects found in a post-modern void. His work, shown most extensively in Europe, is found in several prominent public and private collections in both the United States and Europe.
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