In this book, Christian Jaccard delivers long, powerful extracts from his unpublished diary, opened in 1968. As Nicolas Bourriaud reminds us in his preface: "From the outset, Christian Jacquard's work has been what he calls intelligible experimentation. Through his exploration of combustion phenomena. Today, Christian Jaccard, the pyronaut, is bringing his work to the fore, as a contemporary of climate change, a precursor of the aesthetics of the Anthropocene."
Born in 1939 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Switzerland, Christian Jaccard presented his first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Cabinet des estampes in Geneva. He went on to develop an art form that, from Coupes Toile/outil to Anonymes calcinés and from Concept Supranodal to Brûlis, “takes a critical look at the complexity of human nature”.
ISBN: 978-2-84056-879-7
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