Erik Desmazières, Jardin en Italie, 1978, eau-forte et pointe sèche, 210 x 297 mm (© 2007, ProLitteris, Zurich)

VEVEY, SWITZERLAND Museé Jenisch presents Erik Desmazieres: Imaginary Places - Prints and drawings, on view through September 9, 2007. In the landscape of contemporary prints, Erik Desmazières' prints are remarkable for their unusual iconography, out of our era, capable of fascinating the person who can follow its meanders. Following the recent exhibition on the views of Paris at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, the 113 works selected by the Musée Jenisch cover some forty years of creation and focus on the places born from his imagination. Strange towns, exotic explorations, cabinets de curiosités -sort of antrum -filled with artificialia and naturalia and other labyrinthine libraries offer many other detours through the main references of Erik Desmazières' universe. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20958

Erik Desmazières, Labyrinthe II, 2003, eau-forte et aquatinte, 323 x 239 mm (© 2007, ProLitteris, Zurich)