Mere & Pere
Author: Yves Haddad
Publisher: La Martiniere Eds De
Paper cover
352 pages
Date of publication: 27/10/2011
EAN978-2732449173
ISBN2732449172
By asking 155 artists - illustrators, photographers or visual artists, a majority of known artists but also anonymous - to provide a diptych comprising a representation of father and mother, Yves Haddad initiated an authentic and atypical artistic project. From this experience are born these singular works, often astonishing, even confusing, which are as many glances on the paternity and the maternity.
"The story of this book began at the synagogue, one day in Yom Kippur, when the rabbi said," Parents are the most dear in the world. They must be cherished in their lifetime and honored even after their death. "This sentence was nothing extraordinary. For me, it even flowed from spring. Yet I received it as a revelation: these words were addressed to me personally, I had to do something about it. “
For four years, Yves Haddad asked more than 150 artists, illustrators, photographers or visual artists, known (Robert Crumb, Dellfina and Dellacroix, Philippe Druillet, Loustal, Lorenzo Mattotti, Speedy Graphito, …) or unknown - to portray their parents.
From this extremely intense experience, sometimes painful, often liberating, are born singular, astonishing, even confusing works and a questioning: and I, could I be able to represent my parents? And how?