December
2020
Assistant Misha Novolny wets huge Othoniel plate under steady gaze of Julien Torhy about to swoop in.
November
2020
Maude Maris in front of virgin stones, ponders what to do.
And off she goes for two three weeks of grinding at the images to their fruition.
Artist talk. Maude and Mïrka get to know each other.
Mïrka shows present state of her spaceship.
Maude Maris, radiant, after completing her first major lithographic series "Liminaires". The trials are finished. Time to start production.
The big day has arrived. Mélanie Delattre-Vogt signs our edition wonder of "La femme à la fourrure".
An edition of 24 copies.
Printers Logan and Paul on Pencréac'h book.
Mïrka Lugosi nears completion of her spaceship, toughens up.
october
2020
Stéphane Pencréac'h (right) comes for blastoff of his mega book project "Le pouvoir". First step, we print backgrounds at machine shop Atelier Fleur de Pierre, to bring the whole edition to finish at the Bastille over the next months. Julien Torhy on left.
Julien Torhy hangs proof of last step of Mélanie Delattre-Vogt's longstanding image "The Woman in Furs", to verify the color before sailing off on the print run.
The Saint-Ange Crew
A cheering group of artists. The 9 artists who were residents at Colette Tornier's Saint-Ange Residency, near the city of Grenoble. A photo-op at end of celebratory dinner, with Colette open armed.
From left to right: Hoël Duret, Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza, Maude Maris, Mathilde Denize, Boris Chouvellon, Guillaume Talbi, Nicolas Momein, Lionel Sabatté, Colette Tornier and Clément Bagot.
Paul Collins
New blood with painter Paul Collins, in to lay down his moiré structures on stone.
A future edition in the making.
First proofs and first reckoning by the artist.
Clément Bagot
Clément Bagot in to sign his Saint-Ange Residency lithograph, which he watercolored.
Albin de la Simone
The Grammaj team, Julie Walter and Audrey Cour, along with singer's manager, watch nervously Albin de la Simone's private photo shoot.
Singer songwriter Albin de la Simone stops by to finish coloring in and sign his print for Grammaj editions.
Carole Benzaken
Carole Benzaken concentrates on her stone for the second color pass.
A work intensive process this is. Modifying your drawing with pumice stones, nitric acid, and brushes.
Michael and Paul reading 'The Democrate de l'Aisne', France's last newspaper entirely printed in letterpress. And in its 115th year of existence. A real feat.
September
2020
Claire Chesnier
Photo shoot before opening of The Painting People. Iconic photographer Renaud Monfourny zooms in on Claire Chesnier in front of her monotypes.
Claire Chesnier curating her monotypes.
During hanging of The Painting People.
The Othoniel task force over to protect the recent gokl leaf paintings hot off the press.
The old crew came in for a cameo to help on big Othoniel painting prints, Marine Lefebvre and Camille Poulie.
Jean-Michel Othoniel and Lionel Sabatté
On a quite early Wednesday morning before any activity begins, Jean-Michel Othoniel shows up to work a composition.
But he wasn't alone, as unconcerted another sculptor, Lionel Sabatté had the same idea. Lionel, in front of a mirror, trying out self portraits on stone.
july
2020
Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza
The day before shutting down for Summer break, Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza, one of the 8 Saint-Ange artists, comes in to sign her photolitho.
Claire Chesnier
Final seance with Claire Chesnier on her monotypes we started November 2019.
Gérard Fromanger
The run of 60 Fromanger prints hanging out to dsry.
The printing team migrates north to Atelier Fleur de Pierre where we made a Gérard Fromanger lithograph on their flatbed press. A commissioned piece by the venerable Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord to honor a permanent ceiling mural which is unveiled early September.
The test proofs serving as our model during the process.
Paul Moragués and Lola Nogués working a future Philippe Favier edition.
Lola Nogués hangs up some old Yves Klein reject proofs.
Lola and Paul, hard on the run.
Mathilde Denize
Mathilde Denize signs her watercolored lithograph edition for the Saint-Ange residency portfolio.
Maude Maris
As does Maude Maris sign hers.
Lionel Sabatté
This includes Lionel Sabatté. His first lithograph, also for Saint-Ange.
june
2020
Maude Maris
June was amongst other things Maude Maris month. SHe was the second of the 8 artists portfolio series to come in and try out like most of them her first lithograph.
Maude has a sure hand and caught on quickly to the lithographic process.
Jean-François Maurige & Marc Desgrandchamps
Jean François Mauirge preps his poster signe outside our door to signal public entrance. We staged a show of our first experiments in 1991, honoring the launch of the catalogue raisonné of all our production.
One of the first visitors to Maurige show was painter Marc Desgrandchamps.
Thomas Perino
A crazy project by engraver Thomas Perino. He carved the full set of 78 tarot cards in woodcut, inspired by the original Marseille tarot. Michael and Paul inking up first proofs.
Thomas Perino (left) oversees first results.
Several individual cards before inking.
Michael Woolworth getting used to inking up tarot board.
Brecht Evens
Brecht Evens comes in to sign a small format edition of two 'manière noire' lithographs.
Mirka Lugosi
Mirka Lugosi sees for the first time the proofs of her landscape. The moment of truth.
Mirka also signs a new edition, the third of her trilogy 50 x 40 cm.
Michael and Julien hard on the Mélanie woman in fur run.
This is the biggest stone our presses can handle.
Guillaume Talbi
Sculptor Guillaume Talbi preps his first lithograph ever. One of the 8 artists of Saint-Ange project.
The sculptor projects and traces onto stone one of his sketchpad drawings.
When edition was finished, he came in to sign the lot.
MaY 2020
Mathilde Denize
Mathilde Denize arrives to draw her stone. She is the first of 8 artists for a portfolio project honoring an artist residency program they all went to - Saint-Ange, near Grenoble. An edition financed by residency owner and collector, Colette Tornier.
Mathilde Denize claims her space.
Matt Magee
Printers Paul Moragués and Léa Tupper concentrate on production of large format Matt Magee lithograph.
Paul and Léa doing final touch ups.
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt elegantly poses in front of her woman in fur.
Jean François Maurige
Jean François Maurige comes in to begin new compositions
Mirka Lugosi
Mirka Lugosi arrived to finally finish her future landscape.
Still much to perfect, but soon it was over and the printing stage could happen.
Deconfinement
Day One, May 11. The printing team comes back and practices social distancing.
Jean-Michel Othoniel
A Jean-Michel Othoniel work installation days before deconfinement. A series of small watercolor like images for a future show in Souht Korea needed to be produced quickly.
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt was the first human to come back to work a few days before May 11 deconfinement to not be with many people at same time.
She also signed a new edition of the woman with rhubarb, a smaller version than the previous one in 2016.
APRIL
2020
Confinement period was lonely. An occasional hound passed by.
March
2020
Then the Coronavirus hit, and everything stopped in its tracks.
Poetry Night
with Sara Larsen and Sandra Moussempès, March 12
Poetry night partner and co-chairman of Double Change, Olivier Brossard, introduces the two writers.
Sandra Moussempès
Sara Larsen, with Olivier Brossard who steps in for translations.
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt – Philippe Favier – Mirka Lugosi – Djamel Tatah
Philippe Favier correcting drawing on ongoing Letraset series.
Favier in full concentration mode.
Odd shot of the three artist drawer types, feverishly working their composition in a Djamel Tatah decor. Almost looking like Tatah type figures.
Mirka Lugosi making headway on her flying saucer landscape.
The magnificent drawers, Mirka and Mélanie, push forward.
A new large format series of three compositions by Djamel Tatah in their beginning stages of construction.
Djamel Tatah experimenting in a small size for the time being, texture ideas, to eventually finish the new large formats with an even brushwork pass.
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt nearing the end on this 'Femme à la fourrure', started last November.
The composition, so close to completion, will have to wait a season due to Coronavirus lockdown.
February
2020
Christian Schwarzwald – All New Ghosts book project
Day One installing studio space for the most intense upcoming week one can live in this world of printmaking.
The absurd goal is to accomplish a genuine artist book of 80 pages, 32 x 24 cm., bound at an edition of 15.. The vast majority of the pages will be treated in monotype, meaning the artist has to re do each copy by hand. This is his first monotype intervention, in black on a single page.
Schwarzwald working with Zélie Nguyen, on of the three hired hands for the occasion, on a double page.
Christian works his monotypes on pre-cut plexiglas sheets. Zélie, here, inks up the whole plexiglas sheet in litho ink to constantly feed the artist with freshly inked surfaces he can act on in rapid succession.
The requirement for the printing team is, 1) to feed constantly the artist with fresh plates. 2) be always on alert for his needs. 3) keep the presses moving at same rate he is producing.
A narrow table structure is erected all around against the big walls. The paper for the edition, folded for the single pages, flat for the doubles, are piled evenly in layout order. The corresponding image is tacked to the wall above each pile.
Printer Paul Moragués rolls up a rainbow flat in a determined area.
Paul works a blue and white rainbow chess board pattern.
Paul passes the inked plate to Joë Landois, who passes it through the press.
Joë, at end of day, cleaning up. The project is advancing well. Examples of completed pages are starting to be tacked on the wall above their edition pile.
End of day, Schwarzwald's battlefield area.
On Day 4, we move to color red. The book has 7 chapters. Each chapter has its visual identity, at times with a color change. There are 4 colors throughout: black, blue, red and yellow.
End of Day 4, the red battlefield takes a rest.
Day 6, and final day for this first go. The Austrian artist will go back to Vienna, and schedule another seance later in the season.
On this final work day, he's using a different approach by inking up the table with his signature rainbow blue to white, but not passing anything under the press, instead he places carefully the page on top of ink surface and drawing on back side (protected by glacine) that will transfer his drawing in negative.
Two different pages are treated in this manner. The richness of the book will appear also through these different singular approaches.
Djamel Tatah
Djamel Tatah signs while cracking up, his new woodcut edition, under humble surveillance.
An edition of 20, combining woodcut and lithography. 70 x 50 cm.
January
2020
Bernard Plossu
Bernard Plossu (right) on stage with mediator and old friend, research artist Don Foresta for a wild night in front of a full house, to share and talk about a series of unpublished photographs he took between 1967 and 1973 while living in San Francisco. His life amidst the counter culture, including portraits of some of its main actors.
FLY LSD was the title for the evening. Here, Foresta and Plossu outside studio in front of makeshift poster after having stunned the audience with their stories.
Mélanie & Michael celebrate their Fifth Anniversary working together.
Its been 5 years, Mélanie and the shop have been producing editionned images together. 15 to this day, with two new ones in progress.
Time to celebrate with favorite éclair au café for both of us. A break for her pursuing her future, and biggest composition ever, "La femme à la fourrure".
Stéphane Pencréac’h
starts his new artist book, “Le pouvoir”.
First trial composition in lithography for book project. A bound book of around 54 pages with 20 portraits of power hungry politicians around the planet, accompanied by a text by French thriller author D.O.A.
Pencréac'h works his color separations on mylar which will print on top of a chosen photo portrait of a power hungry political leader. Mirka Lugosi in back.
Frédérique Loutz
Master drawer Frédérique Loutz is back in town to push several new ideas in lithography. Here, she begins a very large format with her unique model next to her.
At lunch break, Mirka Lugosi shares a new 'stone' paper she just purchased with Frédérique Loutz. Sharing the new finds.
Mirka Lugosi and Mélanie Delattre-Vogt
Mirka is finally back with us after a month held up in her suburb due to sever transport strikes.
Mélanie and Mirka, who have often shared the space together these past seasons (they're very slow) are once again reunited to make their magic happen.
Matt Magee
Matt Magee flies in for a week in Paris to sign all of our finished editions started last Summer.
Here, signing the "Madrigal" triptych.
But, we had also agreed upon him making two new large size images for future editionning during his week.
Here's Matt Magee in full swing painting his hieroglyphs on tracing paper to be transferred to litho plate.
This new composition will remain in black n white.
And will be printed at 15 copies on slightly warm Hahnemühle 350g paper.
He attacks a second one.
And brings his peanut shapes towards the bottom.
Mélanie Delattre-Vogt, in signing hell.
The artist behind her daunting stacks of prints to be signed.
A commissioned piece at 2000 copies of reduced version of her "Femme à la rhubarbe".
Several sessions were necessary to sign and number each one.
Claire Chesnier
Scene of the crime during work sessions with painter Claire Chesnier as we make forward progress on our 'invented' monotype process. One can notice on back wall results from the day's catch.
The artist table. She feeds herself with color.
Bruno Hellenbosch
The first days of January, thus the new year, were kicked off by Belgian painter Bruno Hellenbosch, in town for a signing.
Day 5 out of 9 of our first editionned delivery for his vast 'Decameron' project. Bocaccio's legendary book is split into 9 days. Hellenbosch carved a 5M x 2M woodcut mural in ten pieces for each day. Each print 105 x 75 cm. was printed at 10 copies.
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