Book signing Olivier Marro / François Paris Saturday 5 November 2016 from 6.30 pm If there is no central character or hero in this book, it is because the…
Book signing Olivier Marro / François Paris Saturday 5 November 2016 from 6.30 pm If there is no central character or hero in this book, it is because the real protagonist is fiction. A fiction hunted down in its every fold, through every shade of grey. To chase this elusive beast, which feeds on the ephemeral, we advanced in the open and with a great economy of premeditation. This project was in fact made from a semi-automatic assembly of texts and drawings that we had produced before we met. The oldest date back 30 years, like the distillation of an XO Cognac. Then, like archaeologists on an excavation site, we reconstructed from these "shards" a mechanical romance with neither genesis nor denouement, not datable by carbon-14. Born anonymously, at the crossroads of François's pencil and the strike of my typewriter, these novelistic perspectives were not meant to relate a story but rather to establish a web of presumptions. These "exercices de tir" may pass for the reconstruction of a news item. And some, scratching a little at this palimpsest, will be free to discover an initiatory journey, a Homeric tale. Failing to be popular, it is a very busy thoroughfare that we have taken. Indeed, in this sense, in order to flush out the chimera, we have all along run on ordinary fuel! Evening of the book signing for Exercices de tir en rase campagne at the Galerie Eva Vautier with Olivier Marro, François Paris and Eva Vautier.
