Le bouquet, Frédérique Nalbandian — 2016 · Three-colour screenprint on Arches Vélin Rives BFK 300g paper. · Deckled edges, torchon texture, · Signed, numbered…
(...) This screenprint was made on the occasion of the exhibition "De Aquis Confusis" at the Musée Jean Cocteau Menton, in 2016. The rose has been present in my practice for many years, through a simple process: dipping the flower and covering it in liquid plaster to preserve its fragility, once the plaster has set. Drawn in dialogue with the rose from the garden of La Belle et la Bête by Jean Cocteau, it is a tribute to lost beauty and love, to the circulating red, the blood of Adonis. (...)
