Lever l’Encre
Solo Show à Monaco
September 10 – October 9, 2015
Galerie L’Entrepôt Monaco,
22, rue de Millo – MC 98000 Monaco
On pages from books found in the streets here or elsewhere, old music scores, or more conventional papers, Saïssi adds another layer, vehemently telling stories that are more or less shady, between reality and imagination, improvisation and deliberate crashes.
In Monaco, at the Galerie de l’Entrepôt, Saïssi, a maverick artist with no school or faction, presents some 50 drawings.
"They are the result of a fierce, powerful thought, seasoned by long years of a ferocious struggle to exist in the art world.
Equally ferocious are the drawings he exhibits—a searing response to the difficulty of being welcomed into a predatory universe ruled by the laws of fashion and market value.
On book pages found in the street, pages printed with elegant Arabic calligraphy, or musical scores, the man hurls his life, his visions, and his charcoal and India ink-inspired view of the world, bringing forth images of biting irony."
Excerpt from the article by Michèle Nakache for La Strada
La liberté en noir et blanc
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L’homme qui donne une deuxième vie au papier
Monaco Matin – 2015
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