Dirty Lines #1
by Julie Savoye
- Printed in France
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Technique: graphite, Indian ink and acrylic on paper.
Exhibition available in several formats.
A multidisciplinary artist, Julie Savoye is first and foremost a painter: she has a love of seemingly ordered disorder, of destabilised continuity, of undulating straight lines, of flat relief.
She overturns the laws of geometry by creating new, often asymmetrical forms, seeking the most harmonious disruptions, the error that never is one. Once the framework is found, she declines all its possibilities, recreating it endlessly.
For 10 years, Julie Savoye has based her work on the same protocol: each autumn, a self-publishing project; each winter, a drawing project; each spring, a volume and painting project; and each summer, a video project that allowed her to free herself from the year's works, while offering them the possibility of being seen differently.
To be able to abandon this protocol framework, which had become too burdensome, Julie Savoye developed the Dirty Lines project: a 24 x 30 cm painting per day in the studio, for as long as the desire was felt, produced on paper using graphite, Indian ink and acrylic.
Claiming a kinship with Raymond Queneau and his Exercises in Style (one also thinks of his famous One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems), Julie Savoye endlessly interweaves angles, colors, and shapes. Each variation is the gestural extension of a deliberate choice by the artist—superposition, shifting, stretching, etc.—an artistic mechanism that Julie Savoye contrasts with the equally infinite possibilities of digital technology and the algorithms she refuses to use. For Julie Savoye, this artistic mechanism is the absolute condition for the understanding of her constructions by the spectators-scrutinizers of her works.
The Dirty Lines series ended after 144 24 x 30 cm paintings and seven 60 x 80 cm paintings. Julie Savoye now has new projects.
• Outdoors: choose locations where people take a walk and/or where there is a lot of foot traffic: in the centre of the town, near a school, in a public garden or along a walking trail... And if possible, on flat ground!
• Indoors: reception hall, office, waiting room, dining room, meeting room - choose the best-lit space.
CAUTION: If the space where you are displaying the exhibition is slightly damp, we recommend purchasing eight simple frames of the same size (50 x 70 cm) to protect the prints.
The papers we have chosen for printing our exhibitions meet two essential criteria, among others: beautiful colour rendering and durability.
• Exhibitions intended for outdoor display are printed on high-quality 130gsm blue-backed paper.
• For exhibitions intended for indoor display, we have chosen a 550gsm semi-rigid paper to which we attach a simple hanging system. These panels can therefore be hung on a single nail or framed if they are to be displayed in a slightly damp location.
For outdoor displays, our poster formats have been chosen to best suit “election” billboards:
• Large outdoor format (84 x 119 cm) for maximum impact. With one poster per billboard, you will need eight in total.
• Small outdoor format (63 x 93 cm) so that two posters can be placed on the same billboard... meaning you only need to install four billboards.
• Indoor exhibition (50 x 70 cm): 8 prints to hang on 5 linear metres of free wall space.
Full view of the exhibition
