Robert Combas - Grenada quatrocento - 1999

COMBAS (Robert). – Grenada quattrocento.

These works were created by Robert Combas during an artist-in-residence period in Sarlat from April to June 1999.

• Title: Robert Combas – Originibus Picturae (Sarlat Exhibition, 1999)

• Description: Original exhibition catalogue of Robert Combas published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Ancien Évêché de Sarlat (April–June 1999). Gold-colored cover with an iconic skull illustration, comprising about 25 pages of poetry with 11 integrated silk screens (11 sérigraphies in the print).

• Condition: Good vintage condition, light signs of wear on the edges of the gold binding.

A propos de cet article
Graficaza, 1999, in-4, couverture dorée illustrée d'une sérigraphie centrale en relief. Rare et bel album de Robert Combas réalisé lors d'un séjour dans une résidence à Sarlat en avril-juin 1999. Il se compose de poèmes de l'artiste illustrés et imprimés par un procédé sérigraphique avec encre gonflante. Artiste peintre français, Robert Combas (Lyon 1957), fut élève aux Beaux-Arts de Montpellier (1975). Il commence à exposer seul dès 1980, et rapidement ses oeuvres -qualifiées de figuration libre par Benjamin Vautier- sont présentées aussi bien en France qu'à l'étranger. " (.) Pour moi une toile peut être influencée par des publicistes naïfs Africains, par l'illustration de livres d'école primaire, mélangée à Picasso ou à Miro ou alors, un dessin genre BD, plus des fausses écritures arabes, plus une peinture brute, très Dubuffet ou Cobra. La figuration libre est une peinture qui ne renie pas ses instincts primitifs et une volonté de cultur

COMBAS (Robert). Grenada quattrocento. n.p., Graficaza, 1999, 4° booklet, stapled (crease at top corner). Poems by the artist illustrated with 11 original silkscreen prints, including 2 on the cover and 1 spread, printed using a swell-ink process. These works were created by Robert Combas during a residency in Sarlat from April to June 1999,

Robert Combas is a French painter, sculptor and illustrator who was born on 25 May 1957 in Lyon and is regarded as a founder of Figuration Libre (Libre Figuration).

Life and education
• Youth in Sète (1961): Moved at a young age with his family to the South of France, Sète, where he spent his youth.
• Education: Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Sète and then five years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. He passed his final exams in Saint-Étienne.
• Paris (from 1980/1981): Established himself in Paris, where he has since lived and worked.

Artistic career
• Establishment of Figuration Libre (1981): In the early 1980s he was the initiator and founder of the art movement Figuration Libre (a name coined by the artist Ben), together with Hervé Di Rosa, François Boisrond and Rémi Blanchard. This movement combined vivid colors, raw energy and elements from pop culture, rock music, comics and schoolbooks.
• Style and influences: His work is characterized by childlike nostalgia, graffiti influences, cartoonish figures and an expressive, dynamic painting style.