French artist Jean-Vincent Simonet works at the bleeding edge of photography, painting and mixed media in an alchemical practice of reworking, overprinting and creating slippages within print processes. Simonet's unique methods were refined over the last decade inside the four walls of his own family's print works in Bourgoin-Jallieu, a fourth-generation enterprise to which the artist stands at the end of that lineage. Cyan Years recalls a memory of his father coming home from the factory with cyan ink staining his skin blue. In anticipation of the factory changing hands, Simonet has undertaken an exhaustive inventory of its innards, using the site itself as subject in the breaks between production schedules, evenings, weekends and holidays.
Images of "Cyan Years" by Loose Joints. Images courtesy of Jean-Vincent Simonet.
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- Images of "Cyan Years" by Loose Joints. Images courtesy of Jean-Vincent Simonet.