Les Enluminures de Amine El Bacha
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Les Enluminures de Amine El Bacha
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LebanonPostcard présente le livre Les Enluminures de Amine El Bacha – Hardcover book, 32×23.5 cm, 120 pages – Banque Audi.
Bien que la Banque Audi ait toujours exprimé son amour de l’art et des choses belles- soit en favorisant la constitution de collections (allant de la peinture classique européenne à l’art contemporain), soit en s’attachant à défendre sans compromission les artistes auxquels elle croit, en en disposant les oeuvres dans ses locaux, ou en prenant directement part au mécénat d’entreprise, ce «livre d’artiste », qui n’est pas tout à fait un livre d’art, n’en est pas une commande. On lira plus loin comment ces «enluminures » ont vu le jour; et c’est bien après leur achèvement que, par le plus pur des hasards, j’en ai pris connaissance. C’est dire combien de scrupules j’aurais eu à présenter ce travail d’Amine El Bacha, si cette joie ne m’avait été offerte par le rôle que j’ai été alors amené à tenir. Sur la base d’une telle production, une amie commune nous a présentés l’un à l’autre, et cette rencontre a donné lieu à une amitié que je me flatte ici de servir de mon mieux. Nous avons conjointement eu l’idée de cette publication, que nous avons voulue surtout fidèle à la transparence des couleurs diluées et à la densité de leur support. Chemin faisant, nous y avons inclus une série de dessins et d’encres qui permettent non seulement d’apprécier d’autres facettes du talent de l’artiste, mais de jauger de la place que tiennent ses «enluminures » dans l’ensemble de son oeuvre sur papier.
Aujourd’hui que j’ai l’honneur d’en saluer la parution, j’espère que l’on sera sensible à la folle liberté et à l’ironie subtile d’Amine El Bacha, autant que j’y ai moi-même pris plaisir, et que l’on rira de bon coeur à chacun de ces réhauts. Je souhaite également que l’on prenne le temps de goûter à la saveur, pour ne pas dire à l’esprit qui y règne, en mesurant toute l’audace et l’enthousiasme qui ont présidé à la réalisation de ce projet. Pour nous, il ne s’est agi en effet de rien d’autre que d’une aventure au sens le plus noble du mot. Une aventure grâce à laquelle nous avons, à la Banque Audi au nom de qui je parle, reconnu qui nous étions: non seulement des personnes au métier généreux et utile, mettant, à l’instar des artistes, leur imagination au service de projets qu’ils jugent bon de promouvoir, mais aussi des amis de l’art sincère et joyeux, de l’art qui combat le désespoir et force du coup le respect. Car si nous ne nous étions pas ainsi reconnus, je n’aurais pas osé offrir à la contemplation un tel «objet», aussi séduisant soit-il. A ce titre, je remercie vivement Amine El Bacha, et cède la place au gai savoir de sa peinture.
Raymond Audi
Bank Audi has always been a patron of the arts, our love of all that is beautiful being reflected in a collection ranging from classical European to contemporary and in our support for artists whose works can be seen at the bank’s various premises. However, this very special edition is not at all an “artist book”! You will shortly see how these “illuminations” were actually born. They were not commissioned by us and I only learned of their existence once they had been completed. A mutual friend introduced Amin El Bacha to me and this meeting gave rise to a friendship which I am delighted to serve to the best of my ability. But if I had not been offered this privilege who knows what reserves I may have entertained about presenting this book.
As it was, together we conceived and gave life to this work, scrupulously respecting the delicacy of Amin’s original aquarelles and all the eloquence of their depth and breadth. Somewhere along the way we added a group of pen and ink drawings which not only create yet another dimension but provide a splendid counterpoint for his “illuminations”, highlighting the place they hold in his art.
To-day, I am honored to greet the publication of Amin El Bacha’s latest work and hope that all of you will appreciate its heady freedom and subtle ironies. I hope you will laugh as much as I did at each and every turn of his creation. May I also ask you to take the time to share and savour the perfume and spirit of his art, matching our own enthusiasm which is in itself a hallmark of this book. A book which is an adventure in the noblest sense of the word because it caused we at Bank Audi, in whose name I speak, to see ourselves as we really are. Not just people in a generous and useful profession, putting our imagination, like artists do, to work in backing promising projects, but also friends of art. Yes, comrades in arms of art, wherever it commands respect by helping combat despair.
The truth is that if we had not recognized ourselves for what we truly are, then I would never have dared offer this “object” for your contemplation, however seductive it might have appeared. Let me thank Amin El Bacha most warmly and open now the door to the “gay science” of his painting.
Raymond Audi
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