Nissan ENGEL (1931-2016) - Lot 8

Nissan ENGEL (1931-2016) The column Aquatint and carborundum Original etching justified 120/150 56 x 76 cm Note: Nissan Engel was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1931. After several years in New York, he chose to settle in Paris. His lyrical, mystical style is the expression of an extraordinary sense of color and perfect technical mastery. Here, the pictorial space is the site of action, dialogue, contradictions and internal correspondences between objects. The elements that make it up, in perpetual motion, are diverted from their usual value to become the power of visual evocation. "I'm struck by Nissan Engel's painting because, without denying everything that makes painting a sensual art, it is above all an art of mental tactics, where the image has a value, an organization of its own and, what's more, a rigor and an almost moral rigor. Through the tactics of language, in language, Nissan Engel manages to create an image within the image. Engel has a great pictorial temperament, with the intelligence of a tactician of the language of images. It's the double image, it's beyond the image, that he gives us to see, and to dream about", said critic Pierre Restany.