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both terrible and calm similar to the first discoverer of brought five paintings shown for the first time at the
the swallowed cities of Egypt and of Sumer having no Museum of Havre last November. the sudden joy which
landmark but solar star of the heart of enormous space bursts out makes the colours appear as the plainsong
in which it advances. adding at each step its solitude of a work arriving at its triumphant maturity. Hung. one
and fixing it bewilderingly as the 'double' of its proper beside the other. these paintings. where the painter has
look. Here Ur and Tyr. two of his most amazing harmonized the signs by painting a plat on various
canvasses. where the graphism unfolds itself in the layers of mineral-like material. are presented as a
manner of a visionary architect rediscovering in the theatre of forms where everything is foreseen and
sand the mad plan of the dead city. Builder in his own planned for something which will occur when man
fashion. Piaubert erects cathedrals or palaces. suggests takes the chance? But will he dare?
1 the gardens. imagines the phantasmagoric monuments The work of Piaubert is an interrogation that each
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and wrests from the foam filled crypts marvellous painting conveys more and more agonizingly on time.
2 flowers blooming in the light of day. Thus he on space and on ourselves; in the living contemporary
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demonstrates that if life is the scandal of reason. art is art it has acquired the value and importance. not of
3 the challenge to it. In the cycle of 'Palingenesie' which an apparition. but of an incarnation. ■
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