Pierre Auville
Douze lignes (Abstract painting)
2015

Name: Douze lignes (Abstract painting)
Brand: Pierre Auville
Price: 1906.49 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Douze lignes (Abstract painting) Pigmented cement on foam panel. Unframed. Auville works with construction cement. Applying techniques used in the construction and ship building industries, he spreads the cement over high-density foam panels, creating pieces ranging in size from one to eight square meters. Douze lines (douze means twelve in French) are made of cement mixed with sand and slate powder which have been thoroughly washed and brushed. Small sparks of quartz, naturaly present in sand provide a shine to the darker lines. Pierre Auville is a French artist whose work investigates and incorporates the aesthetic and conceptual qualities of manufactured materials such as cement, concrete and steel. He was born in Le Havre, on the Normandy coast, and lives and works near Paris. Auville explored many different fields before turning full time to art. He worked as a journalist, served in the French Navy, worked in emergency medical services and held various management positions in industrial companies. He worked around a lot of different kinds of manufactured materials and surfaces, which inspired him. As his artwork evolved he experimented with different mediums, exploring various kinds of alternative media until he discovered the rawness and versatility of cement. Cement allows Auville to search for the point where the colors of human-made materials go back to their original mineral essence. He references the various color qualities of minerals in stone, ranging from Lascaux cave in France, which he visited as a kid, to cement roads in hot areas such as California, to the abandoned WW2 “blockhaus” that line the Atlantic coastline of Western Europe. Pictorially, Auville’s aesthetic vocabulary is influenced by modern art movements such as Geometrical Abstraction, Arte Povera and Street Art.

Creator:

Pierre Auville (1968, French)

Creation Year:

2015

Dimensions:

Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 40.95 in (104 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)

Medium:

Foam Board,Pigment

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

2010-