IMAGING THE LIVING - Martin Jarrie

"An imagier with the appearance of a beautiful book to discover the world through the colorful round of fruits, flowers, vegetables and animals that populate it...More than 50 fruits, flowers, vegetables and animals to discover in this imagier with a very large format to put in all hands."

" In the house of my childhood grew cabbages, green beans, carrots, potatoes, and some fruit trees. At the end of the garden was a rabbit hutch, which I approached with fear, surprised by their sudden gallops. Flowers grew around the well (...) I now live in Paris, but I still carry within me all those vivid sensations of my childhood and I like to bring them to life in my paintings. "

At the beginning of Martin Jarrie was a landscape, that of the valley of the Sèvre in which flows this important tributary of the Loire that is the Sèvre Nantaise. From the bottom of his parents' garden, he could see the Saint Martin farm but also guess on the other bank, La Jarrie, where he lived his first years. His attachment to this childhood land was so strong that Martin Jarrie chose the names of these places as his pseudonym.

"One is of his childhood as one is of a country..."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is also the memory of this nature of the young years, always very present, which côtoie the Italian primitives, the art brut, the anatomical engravings of the XVIIIth century, the American painter Robert Zakanitch, the surrealism and the catalogs of Manufrance, among the great muses of the illustrator and French painter and which gives to his work a single seal.

A small piece of garden, near the rabbit hutch, which is transformed into a cornucopia in " L'Imagier du vivant " to spread fruits, vegetables and animals under our dazzled eyes of tired city dwellers. A whole universe dreamed in a few square meters...

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