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Arthur UNGER - a Different Perspective

at 57 KM
Montigny les Metz
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Arthur Unger is a Luxembourgish artist born on July 11, 1932, in Luxembourg. Having turned away from traditional painting techniques, he has expressed himself since the 1970s through an original technique of painting on copper. This process surpasses classic painting methods as the artwork is born from matter and fire. This procedure, which he calls "pyrochimiograms on copper", perfectly suits the informal transposition of his visions of the African continent, where the mineral and the vegetal, the animal and the human are transcended by the torch's flame into a work of art with great creative force. Arthur Unger’s visual expression is nourished by the two opposing elements of water and fire. Throughout his career, the artist has explored two specific techniques, Chinese ink, which he describes as psychograms, and the technique of pyrochimiograms on electrolytic copper. He describes himself as a painter of matter. The first part of the exhibition is dedicated to his copper works, called "pyrochimiograms" achieved by the flame of the artist's torch, a technique he chose for working on his electrolytic copper medium. The flame produces oxidation, revealing different colors on the copper plate. Prior to this torch technique, the artist sometimes makes a drawing with Chinese ink before working the copper with the torch flame. He sometimes adds pencil or gouache. His gesture is free and controlled. His Chinese inks, named "psychograms" or "DIP paintings", are part of the second part of the exhibition. Arthur Unger works on paper, using another technique by first making a gestural, moving drawing with his brush and Chinese ink, which he dries and then immerses in a water bath. Arthur Unger describes himself in the art scene as a free electron and a "Taoist" of duality. "Unger has an artistically and aesthetically promising future as adventurous as it is, both for him and for the art lover in search of incantatory enchantment" Michel TAPIE 1979.

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