Saint Brissot Aux Doigts D’acier

Galerie Da-End, Paris, presents "Saint Brissot Aux Doigts D’acier," an exhibition of works by Jacques Brissot, who passed away in 2020. The show features a selection from his extensive oeuvre, including collage-paintings, assemblages, dioramas, and composite objects. Brissot's practice is characterized by appropriation, diversion, and the constant recomposition of images, resulting in a prolific and unconventional body of work.

A significant aspect of Brissot's art involves his engagement with Western painting masterpieces. He reinterprets canonical works, from Early Netherlandish painting to Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, by integrating contemporary imagery from magazines and newspapers. These hybrid creations form a unique iconography that blends the sacred with the grotesque and homage with irreverence. Brissot's artistic development was influenced by figures in audiovisual arts and artists like Arman and Roland Topor, leading to a singular practice that defies categorization.