Michel Paysant

The Unterlinden museum in Colmar has been restoring the Isenheim Altarpiece since 2018, the work of two German masters of late Gothic architecture, Matthias Grünewald and Nicolas de Haguenau, exhibited in its chapel. As part of this restoration, the artist Michel Paysant was invited to exhibit. He had access to the chapel for two years, and was able to soak up the famous work. The book gives an account in the first part of the resulting installation, De mains et d'oes (Denkraum), while Carnets des regards presents drawings made from the altarpiece using the eye technique. -tracking. Michel Paysant has been developing the DaLy project (Drawing with the eyes) for more than twenty years: he experiments with the aid of an eye tracker all the artistic creation possibilities of the eye-tool. Eye tracking, in French oculometry, highlights the movements of the eyes, the visual path (fixations, movements). The eye tracker makes it possible to obtain very precise traces of the oscillations and movements of the eyes. An artist passionate about classical and experimental drawing, a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, Michel Paysant develops numerous research projects with teams of