Swimming Pool by Michel Quarez
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Swimming Pool by Michel Quarez
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(1938- )
Quarez works at two extremes: his posters are either characterised by a vivid, attention-demanding use of colour in neon-tints of pink, green and yellow, or they are realised as black line drawings on a white background. Initially the colours were in large fields arranged in unexpected compositions on the poster; as time has passed his work has become more painterly. After several otherwise successful posters he decided against continuing to use a computer in producing his work. By his own admission, he can not communicate emotion with the aid of computer techniques, where the design must be printed before the image reveals that with which he seeks to invest it. Quarez believes the physical movement of a brush on paper is of great importance for his work. He can therefore be seen as a painting designer. Moreover, in most cases his typography is also painted. That he is likewise closely involved in the printing process.
The artist's active engagement with gay emancipation also emerges in his oevre: he broaches this subject in vivid colours, as he does the fight against AIDS.
Quarez, born in 1938 in Damascus, had completed his training in Paris at L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs when he worked for a year with Henryk Tomaszewski at the Academy in Warsaw in 1961. After working in advertising he moved to New York, where he developed the comic strip Mode Love. Back in Paris he spent some years as an illustrator, until he began to design posters toward the end of the 1980s. Since then he has received a number of international prizes.
(The Netherlands -Amsterdam) A presentation of work by Michel Quarez will open on February 17 in Stedelijk Museum CS. His colourful posters seem to ignore the edges of the paper on which they are printed. He finds his themes in his immediate neighbourhood, the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, with its population overwhelmingly of foreign extraction: integration, protest against a rendering plant in the area, a local swimming pool, the battle against AIDS, loitering youth.
The posters of Michel Quarez are a fine continuation of the tradition of the French painting poster designers already represented, such as Cassandre, Loupot, Savignac and many others.
- Dimensions:Height: 65.75 in (167.01 cm)Width: 47 in (119.38 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1996
- Condition:Very Good.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: VP7271stDibs: 060607814298
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