Christian Bessigneul ,
Engraver

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Christian Bessigneul ,
Engraver

Caroline Doutre ©

Materials

Metals, paper

Localisation

Choisy-le-Roi, France

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Portrait

In front of him, two hands caress and monopolize the world. The left generates directions and rotations. The right controls the depths. Even with his eyes closed, he persists and applies the rules of art. He is an illustrator, engraver, text and image cutter. In all materials, he reigns between 2D and 3D, over two and a half dimensions!

"The images without legends are orphans! Drawing, engraving, and embossing work hand in hand to print reliefs readable for other hands. The plates and pages illuminate, understanding illuminates. It makes it accessible."

Like Leonardo da Vinci, he believes that liver veins and river systems have something in common, just like mold and clouds. Like Comenius, he loves exchanges, pedagogy and multilingual illustrated dictionaries. For him, printing and its special processes remain a passion.

Lauréat de la récompense Talents d’exception du Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main® 2015

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