Share:
 

Dado – Recent publications

“Following an indecent banquet, your world dozes off.
Let’s leave the bastards to their reactionary slumbers while we pray on the sly for the return of Marat and his suppurating itches.
While on your sun-drenched beaches, the brown plague gets a tan. In the shadows, an unseen revolution seethes.
Would that the clear voice of Saint-Just would rise again to call for your heads and for the executioner to sever them.
Would that the sans-culottes might flood in from their slums and stick your pretty noodles on a pike.
Would that, from their tombs and unmarked graves where you dumped their bodies, our long-dead heroes might surge forth, those of Year II and our fathers the Communards, they’d be delighted to put you through the mincer.”

Jann-Marc Rouillan
Marseille, March 8, 2008
Baumettes Prison

“[For] twenty, thirty, forty years now, Dado has been obsessing us with his cortege of little hybrid monsters, violent, frenetic, and pathetic. [.] The pointy and scratchy, the ungulate and pedunculate, the crafty and the vindictive – an extensive and excessive fauna cursed by the misfortune of existing and let loose in the void of space – a nightmare, with neither house nor home.
Between ecstasy and aggression, hordes of degenerates have been spotted proliferating over walls in Sérignan, at Gisors, in Grainville-Ymonville, fleeing untold horror and terror, sowing horror and terror.”
The Birds of Irène is one of these nightmares. Drawn in memory of Irène Némirovsky who died in Auschwitz in 1942, they possess, in the words of Claude Louis-Combet, “for all eternity, the leaden weight of insatiability, of a love destroyed. To that, Dado adds: ‘Irene’s face was strikingly beautiful. My mother bore a strange resemblance to her; she was her spit and image.’”

Following a profitable collaboration with bronze-founder Régis Bocquel, Dado took over the blockhouse at Fécamp (a R612 campaign casemate unit, built in about 1942 by the German Occupiers). He decorated the walls and installed bronzes. Photos by Régis Bocquel. Texts by Claude Louis-Combet and Yanitza Djuric.

Interlarding drawings by Dado and texts by Matthieu Messagier, this book places side by side the chiseled delicacy of poetry with the chromatic power of line. From this is born a hybrid, as if organic, piece in which words and sensations fuse to make a new reading experience.

↑ Top of page 

↑ Top of page