THE COMPONENT MOUNTED IN IMAGEPORTFOLIO OF ELEVEN ENGRAVINGS ON VÉLIN D'ARCHES PAPER

It is about objects like images and speeches, loss awaits them: loss of use, of value, of meaning, of interest, etc. Obsolescence – even unplanned – is a widely shared fate. This relationship to time irrigates the artistic approach of Alain Bizeau who takes a marked interest in techniques as ancestral as drawing and engraving. By diverting the use of an industrial machine to make printed circuits, he produced in 2013 a portfolio of surprisingly contemporary engravings based on research on obsolescence carried out with students in social careers and in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computing. of the IUT of Rennes 1 within the framework of a workshop entitled: "the component assembled in image". A singular acceleration of procedures by this return to a new kind of photoengraving! Like a return to the experiments carried out at the origins of photography at the beginning of the 19th century, in the time of Niepce and Daguerre. (…)”