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Poetics of the Greenhouse: Works by Bernard Moninot

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Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation, from axonometric projections, to outside central perspective or interiors views. The greenhouses are shown as autonomous realms sporting a striking contrast between the geometric […]
12th Jun 2022

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