Works loaned by Le RU, the art library of Angers. Exhibited at the ESSCA

Title: Symbiosis 
Author: Tamaris Borrelly 
Technique: Etching, 5 color layers 
Medium: Korean GPK 02 paper, 28-32g 
Year of creation: 2023 
Dimensions: 66 x 96 cm 
Location: On the ground floor, on the wall behind the reception 
Remarks: Artwork created in collaboration with Atelier René Tazé, Paris. 

"Tamaris Borrelly trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studios of Giuseppe Penone, Ann Veronica Janssens, and Djamel Tatah. Her travels in India and Asia have enriched her work. She explores the connections between animals and plants, as well as all species that inhabit the Earth. In her drawings, Tamaris Borrelly creates hybridizations where ersatz of bodies, clues of the animal, plant, and mineral worlds intertwine. Through overlaps, transparencies, cross-sections, and superimpositions, she questions the nature of things and their materials. Her drawings, which appear as a fantastical landscape, are a poetic interpretation of life: they are cellular. With Symbiosis, she brings together microscopic and macroscopic forms within a landscape made of matter, humus, and forming bodies. Bound together by cords, these hybrid beings exchange fluids and information flows, symbolizing the necessary connections for a harmonious respect of different forms of life on Earth." 

Artothèque Angers, new acquisition, 2024 

 Title: Saint-Fiacre 
Author: Peter Soriano 
Technique: Silkscreen 
Medium: Double-sided on perforated aluminum 
Year of creation: 2007 
Dimensions: 50 x 50 cm 
Location: On the Atlas cabinet, reading room 

"Born in 1959 in Manila, Philippines. Lives and works in New York. Peter Soriano presents his work on the American and French art scenes. (...) In 2004, he spent six months at the Calder studio in Saché. This stay is considered to have transformed his habits and created a break in his work, which deepened one of the most striking traits of his entire production: his ability to situate himself BETWEEN, precisely refusing to occupy a single terrain (between the United States and Europe, with the cultural and intellectual differences that entails), between sculpture and painting (especially since the vivid colors (orange, blue, yellow, and khaki...) play a predominant role in the final work, reflecting the artist’s initial training as a painter before turning to the production of three-dimensional objects, and also in the relationship with the wall, which is sometimes as important as that with the floor)." 

Artothèque d’Angers. 

Title: (Untitled) 
Author: Frédérique Bouffandeau 
Technique: Stencil outlined with charcoal 
Medium: Paper 
Year of creation: 2006 
Location: On the wall of the second column to the left in Reading Room 1 

"Frédérique Bouffandeau embarked on a methodical experiment starting from a randomly shaped cardboard matrix: a halo that rejects the geometric circle in favor of an organic appearance (the outline of a corolla?). Through successive displacements of the matrix, this unique form is then multiplied in the vertical space of papers with varied textures, it is outlined with charcoal. The space is covered according to the principle of all-over." 

Joelle Lebailly, Landscape Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts and the Artothèque of Angers, December 2006 to February 2007

Title: The Leg at Rising 
Author: Io Burgard 
Technique: Lithograph with 3 color layers and pastel highlights 
Medium: On Velin BFK Rives paper 300g 
Year of creation: 2023 
Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm 
Location: Ground floor, on the wall in front of the stairs leading up to the mezzanine 
Remarks: Artwork created in collaboration with Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris. 

"The work of Io Burgard celebrates the fluidity of bodies and their mobility in transitional spaces. With 'The Leg at rising,' Io Burgard offers us a graphic representation of time: a 'before' in the form of a blue biomorphic volume, an 'after' depicted as an ovoid green anise-colored shield, entities united by a stylized leg poised to take a step and mysterious abstract arms seemingly seeking an embrace... When asked about the title of her work, the artist says she was inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin, particularly the novel 'The Lathe of Heaven,' a story of a man who discovers upon waking that some of his dreams have manifested and changed the world. Thus, we can see in her lithograph a materialization of both an anxious and optimistic vision of time, which Io Burgard's generation tries to build on the ruins left by previous generations." 

Artothèque Angers, new acquisitions, 2024

Title: Geometry in the Hands 
Author: Giuseppe Penone 
Technique: Photography 
Medium: Negative print 
Year of creation: 2010 
Dimensions: 30 x 22 cm 
Location: On the mezzanine, on the wall between the shelves 

Giuseppe Penone is an Italian artist born in 1947. He is one of the most famous members of the Arte Povera movement, often described as a guerrilla against consumer society during the 1960s. 

" (...) in Penone's work, images are most often born tactilely. Experiencing phenomena is first and foremost getting to know them through direct skin contact. A shape formed by the images on my hands. One might say 'place your gaze,' but it is only after placing your hands that you place your gaze, and the gaze perceives, deciphers the form, and sees it with the impressions of the hands." * "(...) The negative print gives the image a radiographic aspect, reinforcing the contrast between the human warmth of the skin and the conceptual coldness of the geometric form."**
*Véronique Goudinoux, "Giuseppe Penone. Breathing the Shadow," Art Criticism [Online], 16 | Autumn 2000, published online March 8, 2012, accessed August 13, 2024. 

URL: http://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/2357; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.2357 

**Artothèque Angers