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6 - Jérome ZONDER Jeu d'enfants #6 - au goûter - 2013 Charcoal a…
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Jérome ZONDER Jeu d'enfants #6 - au goûter - 2013 Charcoal and graphite on paper 196 x 149 cm Charcoal and graphite on paper 77.16 x 58.66 in. Provenance: Galerie Eva Hober, Paris Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner FR Zonder's hybrid visual universes draw on a repertoire that merges the individual with the collective; he mixes these elements in an open creative act that presents itself as an interaction of intuition, of orientation on the object of research, the way to represent and develop them. This 'recipe', which allows the artist to break into images, subjectivise them and develop his own imaginary narratives, has its intellectual core in an extensive confrontation with the problem of the current power of images. For an artist like Jérôme Zonder, whose thinking unites cultural pessimism and humanity, who reflects on war and violence, anti-Semitism, attacks on human dignity and the destruction of individual culture by consumer society, the grotesque is a stylistic device for illustrating the contradictions of our times. In his "cellular drawings", Zonder depicts laughter and morbidity, the unspeakable and the unspeakable, horror and comedy, ridicule and threat, delicacy and monstrosity, with a polygraphic accentuation that was hitherto unknown. In 2009, he began his "Jeu d'enfants" series, a polemical and perverse odyssey whose central subject is mixed and childlike figures of extreme violence, where intimate history and History (the big one) collide in the service of the same orgy of debauchery and cleverly thought-out amorality. EN Zonder's hybrid visual worlds draw on a repertoire that merges the individual with the collective; he mixes these elements in an open creative act that presents itself as an interaction of intuition, of orientation on the object of research, the way to represent and develop them. This "recipe", which enables the artist to break into images, subjectivize them and develop his or her own pictorial narratives, has its intellectual core in an extensive confrontation with the problem of the current power of images. For an artist like Jérôme Zonder, whose thinking unites cultural pessimism and humanity, who reflects on war and violence, anti-Semitism, attacks on human dignity or the destruction of individual culture by consumer society, the grotesque is a stylistic device for illustrating the contradictions of our times. In his "cellular drawings", Zonder thus depicts laughter and morbidity, the unspeakable and the unspeakable, horror and comedy, ridicule and menace, delicacy and monstrosity, with a polygraphic emphasis hitherto unknown. In 2009, he began his series "Jeu d'enfants," a controversial and perverse odyssey centered on hybrid, childlike figures of extreme violence, in which personal history and History (with a capital H) collide in the service of a single, carefully crafted orgy of debauchery and amorality. Jérome ZONDER
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