Artist Feature: Jerome Karsenti
...the concordance of every single and singular gesture...
This suite of artwork is from Karsenti’s “Powders” collection. Each is painted with silicon carbide powder, which is used to manufacture electronic components. He uses the powder as a dry ink, sliding across a very large surface to capture chance images, inspired by Chinese and Japanese paintings from the 1600s.
“What I’m interested in, is not the movement of the idea, from its plan to its realization, but the concordance of every single and singular gesture – which, however thought through, carries its debt to the arbitrary; not to the plan, not to its prior design, but to the intuition of things and their immanent organization, and of their profound coherence.” –Karsenti
Some of the pieces are processed using the Photogravure technique. This technique is a method of printing high quality images with the use of copper plates, light sensitive gelatin and etching techniques.
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Jérôme Karsenti (1969) is a visual artist and poet, dedicated entirely to his work since 1997. He grew up in Nice, studied in Marseilles and Paris and earned a degree in architecture from the Ecole d’architecture de la Villette in Paris. He has held many exhibitions in Paris and most recently in Berlin, where he currently resides. He is the author of the novel, You can’t be serious, man and the book of poetry, Pupilles de fourmis. To view more of his work, you can visit his artist site here.