Page 34 - Studio International - December 1965

Piaubert

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2 by Pierre Cabanne

A solitary man. rarely well and sometimes badly
understood. Piaubert is a strange artist, one of those
most absorbed in the mysteries of the material, of
humanity and of life. His work has been frequently
described as 'magic' or as 'fantastic' for want of a better
term. 'What the spirit sees when the eye dreams' or
better, what the spirit raises from unknown realities
when the eye closes: seen before the day, before the
light, before man, perhaps; the universe of Piaubert
fascinates the imagination or the memory with land­
1 scapes which no one apart from himself would have
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dared to conceive. When Klee wrote 'The world in its
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Painting 1 9 64 present form is not the only world possible' he expressed
a truth which would only be apparent to the most
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Aire 1964 privileged person capable of making visible the
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