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Le tatouage - The tattoo
by MaoualTHE MAOUAL'S ENGRAVINGS
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feeling of sacred much more virulent, some vast divings into the memory
and the mediterranean symbolics caracterize Maoual's work, who is an artist
native of morocco and living in Marseille over 15 years.
Made of hammered refrigerator's slabs, cuted and forged, the printings, the marks,
the tattoos and multiple inventions of this not so conventional engraver are at the same
paintings and sculptures.
In black and white or in warm and sensuos colors, his pictures whith a strong
intensity, evoke the big turn of our lives, the changes, the evolutions,the wounds, the
births, the splendours, the splits into two, the spirals, the hopes of release, the
halfcast mixtures, the accidents and mutilations that are continuously transforming us.
His engravings talk about a common fate and silmuteanously about a profound
solitude; they explore order and disorder, the noise and the violent music of our lives.
Alain Paire, TAKTIK,
| Ma technique de gravure est surtout basée
sur le choix des matériaux rescapés de notre civilisation. Je découpe des plaques de
frigidaires récupérés et je dessine mes motifs en utilisant un décapant qui fait
sauter la peinture afin d’obtenir un premier relief. Je superpose ensuite
d’autres reliefs à l’aide d’aquatinte et de bains d’acides. Je
m’exprime par des formes stylisées, libérées des soucis du significatif et de la
composition.
Le tatouage (gravé à l’aide d’une pointe), apparaît sur mes plaques
comme l’écriture d’une identification et un mode fondamental de communication.
Je continue mes recherches dans ce sens en travaillant sur de grandes plaques avec
rajout et apport
d’épaisseur en syntofer (produit pour la réparation des carrosseries
automobiles). En ce moment, j’expérimente ce support qui permet des scarifications
profondes et qui donne, lorsqu’on travaille sur plusieurs plaques en superposition,
des matières très intéressantes à l’impression en couleurs.
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My technique of engraving is based on
reclaimed materials of our civilisation. I cut plates out of salvaged refrigerators and
draw my images by scouring in order to obtain a first relief. With the help of aquatint
and baths of acids I superpose others relief’s.
My forms are stylised forms, liberated with the concerns of composition.
The tattoo (engraved with the help of a point) appears on
my plates as the handwriting of identification and a fundamental
mode of communication.
I continue my researches by working on great plates by adding in thickness with
syntofer, (produced for the repair of coach building automobiles) this material allows
deep grooves. Using several superimposed plates each in a different colour creates very
interesting impressions.
Maoual
maoual@multimania.com
http://www.multimania.com/maoual/ |
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