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biography 2011
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SIGN7 Contemporary artist Member de la Maison des Artistes
Tendency Post pop - French Colors - After Pop
- Medal the French Assembly - Medal the City of Puteaux - Medal the City of Carrieres sous Poissy
- Label Mission Paris 2000 |
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“The man, in his house does not live the staircase, but it makes use of it to go up and penetrate everywhere; thus the human spirit does not remain in the numbers, but it arrives by them at science and all arts” Rivarol This contact with the painters and photographers family friends, Emmanuel-Charles Garnier, known as SIGN7, develops very young person an aesthetic sensitivity ; his large father, original polytechnician able in 1907 to cross Europe to discover the mythical table “the Christ Dead” of Hans Holbein, it inherits an eye informs and the taste for the photograph related to the voyages. Director of Radio France, Lucien-Bernard Garnier, by illustrating in major building sites such traced first Railroad of Guinea, the transatlantic installation of cables, the construction of the Antennas of Holy Sat, offers to the memory of Emmanuel-Charles the memory of a grandfather registered in the history and the traces of the past come to be fixed in the work present of the artist. Teenager, it attends the history Lyons gallery regularly “the Eye Listening” creates by his godfather. After a formation with the prestigious Julian academy, parallel to creations design, SIGN7 develops its painting and its sculpture, of médiums according to him more capable to support ripening to be it creative; it chooses the abstraction like artistic mode of expression, “this abstraction which, distingu [ant] the quantity of the things of their qualities, is a specific character of the human intelligence” E.Goblot. Its experiments as a principal of arts EPSAAVP and teaching with the ESTB and the EMSAT, its membership of the Jury of the School Swell, like its participation in various and many living rooms, such as Designer' S Saturday, the International fair of the Museums, INOV, the Living room of Montrouge, the Living room of Independent, the Biennial one of Corbeil the Essonne fall under a dynamics of division of its work with the public. This same creative impulse invites SIGN7 to adapt public space, in particular by creating decorations for the zenith of Orleans then in 2007 with a great exposure of personal works among which a monumental work: one “I love you”, on three meters in height, formed of letterings red on black bottom, reproducing its first word of love and lately, with the 61ème Cannes festival 2008, the gold frogs of Sign7 ten meters length invest the beach of Carlton to the Chopard Hook-Beach while a meadow of letters COILS red is detached from a sky charged with clouds; between interior and outside, the artist seizes the gasoline of Cannes, behind prestigious and sumptuous, “It the sexual one” to be covered with gold sheets “To be It in limp”, art in the middle Being it. The intellectual sensitivity and the interest of SIGN7 for numerology open out in an original work, centered on meaning figures and letters, in the religions, myths and beliefs all over the world and the times, “the numbers alone make it possible to seize the true nature of the universe” Pythagore.
Proceeding by topics of Classification of its works, Being - the Being - Number - Figure - Evils, in a logic of topics of Creation, Need - Jealousy - Ignorance - Pleasure - Love - Procuration - To have - Accident - Forgets - Interest - Fanaticism - Conviction, the artist develops a true reflexion around its artistic production.
The graphic signs are at his place, not only objects of painting, but also rules of creation; each one of its works answers, indeed, with the requirements of the golden section, 1,618, divine proportion defined by the two length ratio such as the quotient of the great part and of small is equal to the report/ratio of the whole. Following the example large Masters of the Rebirth or, nearer to us, of Le Corbusier, SIGN7 compels itself to create according to the regulating layout governed by the divine proportion, in a step of research of the aesthetic “Perfection”, “Absolute”.
The sum of the values of the letters also acquires a singular dimension in the work of SIGN7; the artist keeps in mind the origin phenician of the alphabetical writing before even being phenomenon of appropriation by the Hebrews, the Arabs and other people, until the proceeding stage of the numeration of the accumulation of the numerical values of the letters, at the origin of our decimal system.
Representations abstract, universally readable, its paintings and its sculptures invite the spectator to receive the message of the artist, around a reflexion on the Being, the creative Being, the religion, the numbers: “To live a Work, Number with the Being, To be a Figure with its Evils".
Handling with dexterity oil, the pastel, the acrylic resin, joining…, on varied supports, SIGN7 uses of the most various materials, glass, plaster, iron, polyester, to make creation a outfall of the Evils Be it. When it paints with the black acrylic resin on flax its Hommages paintings, made conspicuous only by one Number, it is to underline the opposition and the complementarity of known as creations, free from colors, with its tables colors on plexiglasses which, them, carry titles. The color plays at SIGN7 a central role in the composition of its works, it always uses, and its, even chromatic range, thus testifying to choices fraught with direction in what the colors become a true language, beside the figures and of the letters; when the color is linked with the matter to equip the structure of its sculptures, it is an indissociable element of work and the play on contrasts between colours sharp and a black bottom allows, at the spectator, the creation of a center of interest more prégnant. Its sculptures “Being” out of resin integrate, as for them, for some, of the objects like matter of its compositions, a revolver in “Being To kill by fanaticism”, a camera in “Being Schizophrenic”. Lastly, through its engagement at the sides of the Companions of Move, of Action Against the Hunger, of the UNICEF, SIGN7 tried out values which are expensive to him, such listening, comprehension, the respect, the division, always in a concern of answering the internationality of the needs and of reaffirming the altruistic role of the artist, who cannot open out exclusively in the closed space of the workshop; thus the photographs taken by SIGN7 are as many testimonys of the many voyages of the artist at the sides of organizations humanitarian.
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