Louis PONS (1927-2021)

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Louis PONS (1927-2021)
Plein Sud, 1996 Mixed media on wood, signed, titled, dated and located Paris on the back 90 x 123 cm Bibliography : " Louis Pons " Somogy, éditions d'Art, Paris 1999, reproduced in the book Louis PONS (1927-2021) After primary school in Marseille, at the Chartreux school, Louis Pons learned the trade of fitter at the Endoume school of trades, still in Marseille, but did not practice it. Press cartoonist at the Liberation, in the newspapers issued by the Resistance, he was also, briefly, an accountant, a farm worker, a grape picker, a house painter... In 1948-1949, he spent a year and a half in a sanatorium in Hauteville. Ill, he retired to the south of France. There he discovered the work of Joë Bousquet, the drawings of Louis Soutter and the aphorisms of Lichtenberg. During this period, he produced about 2,000 drawings in Indian ink, painted and acquired an engraving press. But suffering from visual disorders, he is forced to abandon drawing. In 1959, he composed his first assemblages, three-dimensional collages, or paintings in relief made of objects and salvaged materials. His work, singular, is at the border between surrealism and art brut. Through his boxes, his reliquaries, his collages, his assemblages, he tirelessly pursues a poetic ethnology that is his own. Gilles Plazy says of him that he is a "collector of debris who composes original works with used things", works always full of oddities, incongruities, surprises and sometimes even humor.
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