Ernest Pignon-Ernest
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situationist French artist,Deborah Bright, The passionate camera: photography and bodies of desire, Routledge, 1998, p. 180 [https://books.google.com/books?id=RdzkLoxMgtsC&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PA180] born in Nice.
Overview
His first work was done in 1966.Cedar Lewisohn, Street art: the graffiti revolution, Tate, 2008, p. 69 It was a reaction to France's Nuclear Strike Force. In 1971, he exhibited posters depicting scenes from the Commune.Bertrand Tillier, 'Les corps piétinés de la Commune: figures de la provocation chez Ernest Pignon-Ernest', in La provocation: une dimension de l'art contemporain (XIXe-XXe siècles), Éric Darragon (ed.), Marianne Jakobi (ed.), Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004, p. 301 [https://books.google.com/books?id=gBlG74_mSKEC&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PA301] In 1978–1979, his posters of Arthur Rimbaud could be seen all over France.Wallace Fowlie (ed.), Seth Adam Whidden (ed.), Rimbaud: complete works, selected letters : a bilingual edition, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2005, p. xxi In 1988–1990, he made drawings of Naples.Philippe Birgy, The art of the city, L'art de la ville, Toulouse: Presses Université du Mirail, 2010, p. 502 [https://books.google.com/books?id=BtglsDE6LuwC&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PA503] In 1996, he initiated the collection of international artwork called Art Against Apartheid alongside Antonio Saura.Sophie Perryer, 10 years 100 artists: art in a democratic South Africa, Struik, 2004, p. 433 [https://books.google.com/books?id=MohAEFc7mG0C&dq=%22Ernest+Pignon-Ernest%22&pg=PT379]
Pignon-Ernest's posters are in the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.{{cite web|website=Center for the Study of Political Graphics|title=Attica|date=1 October 2016|url=http://collection-politicalgraphics.org/detail.php?module=objects&type=popular&kv=876}}
Pignon-Ernest joined the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), one of the main labour unions in France.{{cite news|title=Le peintre Henri Cueco est mort|url=http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/le-peintre-henri-cueco-est-mort_59809/|accessdate=March 15, 2019|work=Libération|date=March 15, 2017|quote=Engagé politiquement à gauche, il aura aussi créé le Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT avec Ernest Pignon-Ernest.}} With Henri Cueco, he co-founded the Syndicat national des artistes plasticiens CGT.
References
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External links
- [http://www.pignon-ernest.com/ Official website]
- [http://collection-politicalgraphics.org/detail.php?module=objects&type=popular&kv=876 Attica]
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Category:French poster artists
Category:Members of the General Confederation of Labour (France)