Éric Manigaud

Aggregate of plastic arts, Eric Manigaud, historian, unearths the first scientific photographs testifying to a repressed past (first world war etc) and proposes to reveal the dark side by the use of the pencil and the graphite , as a designer. If the artist by means of a projection by the magic lantern endeavors to copy his drawing on the photograph, thus promoting, by this at first glance mimetic representation, a certain confusion of the mediums, his creative enterprise is not reducible to a simple transcription operation. By using graphite, it reinforces the effect of reality, thus giving a certain density to the shade and thus offering these individuals the thickness allowing them to take shape. But through this technique and the gesture associated with it, he also sketches the wavering contours of the shadow, attempting to represent a transitory space between light and darkness, life and death, the representation of these individuals who seem to be in an in-between. ontological thus borders on unreality. Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France (01.02.-15.08.2021). Agrégé d'arts plastiques, Eric Manigaud, en historien, exhume les premières photographies scientif