Ernest Pignon Ernest: Si je reviens [Pasolini, 2015]
Past exhibition
Overview
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Born in 1942, Ernest Pignon-Ernest is considered the pioneer of urban art by both insiders and outsiders. As early as 1966, he began to intervene outdoors to apply his artistic gesture. Ernest Pignon-Ernest's career is marked by projects that are strong in emotion and that are part of the collective memory. Ernest Pignon-Ernest never takes an interest in a subject by chance and devotes months of research, readings and location scouting to it. In fact, he tries to grasp the essence of the place in order to think of his installations; its inscription in the urban fabric, its aesthetic expression, its symbolic adequacy, its place in the memory of the inhabitants as well as its patrimonial history. Far from the easy aestheticism of today's street art, Ernest Pignon-Ernest displays a rare ethics and commitment. His in situ works often carry a political resonance and this was still the case when, in 2015, the Chenus Longhi Gallery had the chance to exhibit his project on Pasolini.
It was already an exhibition of Ernest Pignon-Ernest that had inaugurated the first space of the gallery in September 2012. A symbolic gesture reconciling all the generations and disciplines of this protean and complex movement that the founders of Graffiti Art Magazine and Openspace Gallery theorized under the name of urban contemporary art. Three years later, Ernest Pignon-Ernest presents in the new space of the Chenus Longhi gallery, boulevard Richard Lenoir the exhibition "Si je reviens, Pasolini, 2015" presenting his photos, sketches and drawings on the figure and death of Pasolini.