Yvon Taillandier
Triple capitipède
2015
Screen printing on transparent film
50 × 71 cm
Unique
Location: Paris, France
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552748501
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About the artwork
Three characters emblematic of Yvon Taillandier's work walk on a transparent film. Their comical, childlike appearance has earned them the name "capitipède", from the Latin capit (head) and pes (foot). Their very pronounced rings and color treatment, with a screen-printed grid, recall practices somewhere between art brut and free figuration. These characters are an integral part of Taillandier Land, the artist's utopian and fanciful vision of what modern society could be.
Expert opinion
Capitipedes inhabit many of Yvon Taillandier's works, and have become recognized representatives. Often portrayed in pairs, prints featuring these creatures in groups of three are very rare and the exception in the artist's practice.
About the artist
Born in Paris in 1926 and dying in Avignon in 2018, Yvon Taillandier is considered one of the forerunners of the free figuration movement of the 1980s. Yet, while his figures with their raw lines and bright colors recall the practices of this movement, the artist refuses to associate himself with it and considers his figuration "liberating" rather than free. The result is a body of graphic work that unfolds across a multitude of media and serves an optimistic vision of modern society. After his first solo show at the L'Art français gallery in Lyon in 1942, and a reputation as a critic, he resumed his creative work in the 1970s and held numerous exhibitions in Europe, in galleries such as GNG in 2018 and in institutions such as the Kiev Museum of Fine Arts in 2009.
“These full-headed characters, who have no neck, no trunk, no arms, but who enjoy one or more pairs of legs [...], their cephalic mass, instead of being opaque, is, for the most part, transparent and lets us see their thoughts.”
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