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Exhibition Paris et nulle part ailleurs, 24 artistes étrangers en France, 1945-1972,Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, 2022-2023"…the same stunning passage. From the imperceptible to the perceptible, without any preconception. The series Entrance-Exit began on the unsuccessful paintings of Unfolding and the series that followed. They already have a structure that I solidify with successive layers. Slowly and ontologically, an architectural construction emerges. Then, suddenly, two years later, surprise! The human figure appears and imposes itself, at first static, erect. I erase it; it reappears. I scratch it out; it emerges again through a quick, spontaneous writing, repeated one hundred times, suppressed one hundred times, buried. Finally, a violent pictorial energy explodes the architectural structure and spews out the figure diagonally, as if trying to push it right off the canvas. The surface becomes a true palimpsest. Here is Entrance-Exit transformed into Facing...".
Judit Reigl, Interview with Yves-Michel Bernard, Kanal No.6, March 1990
