Helene Csech Abstraction Eau Forte Originale "Vehemence 3E Etat" Ca 1980

Description: [20th CENTURY ART - ENGRAVING SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST -ETCHING or IUGHTETTING - ABSTRACTION] Helene CSECH1921-2013 CSECH HELÈNE BiographyBorn in 1921 in Paris, died in 2013 JEUNE name Gougelet. Engraver, exhibiting since 1960. Worked at the Friedlander workshop (Paris). - Member of the company “Le trait” (BNF notice)In the obsessive movement of its ebb and flow between a few favorite forms, Hélène Csech's work evokes the phantasmagorias that are born around submerged cities, interior cities to which no one will ever have access again, and their fauna and flora desolate for being only what they are, in silence, and to their processions of pointless extras. An enormous loneliness generates an enormous secret whose work spells emptiness – the inexorable desertification of a deserted planet… Hélène Csech's works are not about stories. They do not illustrate fables. Nor are they speculative stagings open to metaphysics. Their symbolism is never inspired by a bookish culture. It is intuitive, immediate. It carries within itself the assurance of what exists – which the artist accesses through the very contemplation of his solitude in all acts of life, in work above all. It is what breathes in the imagination, as soon as it coincides with itself. From there proceeds the truth without ambiguity – but not without shadow – which is given to us to see. Truth strong like the line, generous like the roundness of the forms, desolate however like this light that the ink devours and which never leaves its solitude: cruel response of the work to the sweetness of the being who accomplishes it.Presentation of the artist by Claude Louis-Combet (Hélène Csech, Drawings and Monotypes, catalog raisonné, Paris, 1996)In 2005, the artist Hélène Csech gave the Belfort Museums a set of 217 works: etchings, drypoints, aquatints or multiple combinations of these techniques, often produced in less than 30 copies to maintain all the subtlety of the drawing. This donation was completed by one of his sons at the end of 2022: 53 works, notably monotypes and drawings, joined the Belfort collections. Two complementary donations which make it possible to preserve the complete work of an artist and to follow its evolution, the Belfort Museums thus becoming a reference concerning the artist since no other institution has so many of his works.Although trained by Johnny Friedlander (Pless, 1912 - Paris, 1992), one of the masters of contemporary engraving, Hélène Csech still remains very little known, like most women artists specializing in engraving. Drawing teacher from 1946 to 1953 in Paris, she painted her works in the Visat workshop until 1979 then with René Taze after this date. She won the First Prize for engraving in Bayeux in 1992.His first floating landscapes, very influenced by Friedlander, gradually disappeared for a more personal work characterized by the appearance of recurring themes: useless architecture, phantasmagorical monsters, disturbing characters... The line is powerful and intense, sometimes impertinent. Black, masterful and extreme, arouses a real fascination that a rare light knows how to highlight. Visionary ArtVisionary art is an essentially pictorial or graphic art that purports to transcend the physical world and depict an enlarged vision of consciousness including themes that are spiritual, mystical, or based on such experiences.Artists, whether established or self-taught — for example belonging to outsider art — create or continue to create visionary worlds. Several so-called “visionary” artists have engaged in spiritual practices and some draw their inspiration from psychedelic experiences.Contemporary visionary artists include Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Emil Bisttram and Gustave Moreau among their predecessors. Symbolism, surrealism and psychedelic art are also among the direct precursors of visionary art.The visionary movementVisionary art, which, in its entirety, is timeless, is not to be confused with the “visionary movement” who formed in Paris in the 1970s.Among the best-known artists linked to this movement are Helene Csech, Dado, Érik Desmazières, Yves Doaré, François Houtin, Étienne Lodého, François Lunven, Philippe Mohlitz, Jacques Le Maréchal, Mordecaï Moreh, Jean-Pierre Velly…These artists are members of an informal group sharing similar artistic references, most often practicing engraving, exhibiting and working in the same places. Unlike fantastic art which brings together illustrative works oriented towards dreams, horror or science fiction, what characterizes visionary art is its abstraction: the artist first expresses an interior landscape, a vision which will beyond the physical world and known and accepted forms.- We sell here aSuperb original black and white etchingvery intense blackAbstraction"Vehemence - 3rd state" (The engraving is here titled by the artist)-Superb etching, printed on beautiful watermarked paper BFK RivesUnknown edition(less than 30 copies, here 3rd state perhaps unique...) Dedication in pencil of the artist “Yours sincerely for Yves” UndatedAround 1975/80Very rare engraving, signed, titled and justified in pencil by the artistat the bottom of the sheet under the subject Free sheetArches type paper(BFK Rives)Approximate sheet size28.5 x 38 cmFormat "at the stroke of the board" (bowl)25 x 21.5 cmOriginal editionFirst Printing Very good general condition,clean and fresh copy, barely yellowed paper cf. Visuals... Rare ! Original old work signed by the artist!This is not a reproduction... Nor are they speculative stagings open to metaphysics. Their symbolism is never inspired by a bookish culture. It is intuitive, immediate. It carries within itself the assurance of what exists – which the artist accesses through the very contemplation of his solitude in all acts of life, in work above all. It is what breathes in the imagination, as soon as it coincides with itself. From there proceeds the truth without ambiguity – but not without shadow – which is given to us to see. Truth strong like the line, generous like the roundness of the forms, desolate however like this light that the ink devours and which never leaves its solitude: cruel response of the work to the sweetness of the being who accomplishes it. etchings, drypoints, aquatints or multiple combinations of these techniq

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