Erik Desmazières

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One of France’s best known contemporary printmakers, Erik Desmazières shares an affinity to neoclassical aesthetics in both the plurality of imagery and the metaphoric use of subjects to convey his artistic idiom. Like the antiquarianism of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Desmazières expresses his veneration in classical magnificence through his detailed rendering of architecture, objects, fragments, ornaments, costume and inscriptions. However, a lack of rationality behind Desmazières’ sometimes colossal scale reminds the viewer of the artist’s fantastic and often elevated musing. Erik Desmazières work is exhibited internationally and also included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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