Ernest Pignon-Ernest

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Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situationist French artist, [1] born in Nice.

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His first work was completed in 1966. [2] It was a reaction to France's Nuclear Strike Force. [2] In 1971, he exhibited posters depicting scenes from the Commune. [3] In 1978–1979, his posters of Arthur Rimbaud could be seen all over France. [4] In 1988–1990, he made drawings of Naples. [5] In 1996, he initiated the collection of international artwork called Art Against Apartheid alongside Antonio Saura. [6]

Pignon-Ernest's posters are in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. [7]

Pignon-Ernest joined the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), one of the main labour unions in France. [8] With Henri Cueco, he co-founded the Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Bright, Deborah (1998). The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-14581-7.
  2. 1 2 Cedar Lewisohn, Street art: the graffiti revolution, Tate, 2008, p. 69
  3. ↑ Bertrand Tillier, 'Les corps piétinés de la Commune: figures de la provocation chez Ernest Pignon-Ernest', in La provocation: une dimension de l'art contemporain (XIXe-XXe siècles), Éric Darragon (ed.), Marianne Jakobi (ed.), Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, p. 301
  4. ↑ Wallace Fowlie (ed.), Seth Adam Whidden (ed.), Rimbaud: complete works, selected letters : a bilingual edition, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2005, p. xxi
  5. ↑ Philippe Birgy, The art of the city, L'art de la ville, Toulouse: Presses Université du Mirail, 2010, p. 502
  6. ↑ Sophie Perryer, 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa, Struik, 2004, p. 433
  7. ↑ "Attica". Center for the Study of Political Graphics. 1 October 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Le peintre Henri Cueco est mort". Libération. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2019. Engagé politiquement à gauche, il aura aussi créé le Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT avec Ernest Pignon-Ernest.
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