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Rebilly, Jean-noel -& Andrew Chalk-
Tsilla
On 'Tsilla,' Jean-Noël Rebilly and Andrew Chalk pay homage to the late French writer and engraver Cécile Reims. While
she may be best known as interpretative engraver for surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, and she also worked with Leonor
Fini and briefly for Salvador Dali, Reims' most powerful and enduring works were made either in collaboration with her
husband, the writer and artist Fred Deux (who signed their collaborative work 'cf deux'), or by herself. Later works by
Reims, like the L'Elan Vitale suite, or the Histoires Naturelles series, manifest denuded, obliterated landscapes;
spiralling abstractions; engravings that shiver with an unearthly radiance, where etchings of great intricacy hint at
intimacy and the velocity of rapture, before opening out to aching empty spaces. The music on 'Tsilla' is similarly
evocative, a tender weaving of emotional complexity carved with the hand-held and simple tools of artisans. Much like
Reims, Rebilly and Chalk enact a similar transfiguration of base materials. For Reims, natural order is made "more
sinuous and curious through the rounded flow of her graver," Kate McCrickard once noted. For Rebilly and Chalk, these
seven pieces, cast under the shadow of a great artist, inhabit that sinuousness, and tease out the eternal flow of tone.
Mastered by Denis Blackham. Edition of 300, comes in a mini handmade gatefold jacket.
Price
€ 19.95
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
26-04-2023
Label
Item-nr
533955
EAN
2090505339550
Availability
Exp. 26-04-2023