Dimensions
20 x 27cm.
Material
Printed book.
Date
2018
Published by United Dead Artists
120 pages, full color
Hard cover
Text by Les presses du réel
Amandine Urruty spreads her repertoire of beasts and her gallery of weird characters on all kinds of mediums, on paper as on walls. As she masters techniques of traditional drawing, she offers us a cheerful collection of deviant portraits, associating grotesque outfits with baroque decorum which miraculously reconcile lovers of alchemistic symbolism to young ladies with too much makeup. Indeed, Urruty builds her images like we would wander in the alleys of a Sunday flea market, borrowing to the mass of objects and to second hand toys their fundamental ambivalence, being wicked and peaceful, decorative and saturated at the same time.
