fire
Since the 1950s, Christian Jaccard uses different techniques and combinatorial processes. The fire-tool “draws” as well as any brush. The living paint spreads inside the canvas, generating forms whose distribution are never completely predictable. It is not the fire which is important but the after trace, the charred imprint, the memory of the making.
My visit to Jaccard's studio on January 2, 1991 will forever remain in my memory, seared by a trace of fire. (...) When I understood that soot is to ash what void is to blue, I realized that I had never experienced such an emotional shock before the sublime truth of appearance since the 14th of January 1961, at the site of Yves Klein's fire sculpture in Krefeld.
Pierre Restany
The proof of Truth by Fire
Catalogue Brûlis, Louis Carré & Cie, Paris 1991
TONDOS & OVALS | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL
FIRE | 1. Tondo & Ovals
DIAMONDS | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL
FIRE | 2. Diamonds
SQUARES & RECTANGLES | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL
FIRE | 3. Squares & Rectangles
PEAKS OF COMBUSTION | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL ON PAINTED CANVAS
FIRE | 4. Peaks of Combustion
RAIN | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL ON CANVAS
FIRE | 5. Rain | Pluies
TOOL WRAP | ROLLED BLACK MATCH FUSE TOOLS
FIRE | 6. Tool Wrap | Couples toiles outils calcinées
WHITE FOLDS | BLACK MATCH FUSE ON FOLDED WHITE CANVAS
FIRE | 7. White Folds | Toiles Blanches Calcinées
COLOR FOLDS | BLACK MATCH FUSE ON FOLDED PAINTED CANVAS
FIRE | 8. Color Folds | Toiles Calcinées
TROPHIES | BLACK MATCH FUSE ON LEATHER
FIRE | 9. Trophies | Trophées
TARGETS | BLACK MATCH FUSE & TAPE STENCIL
FIRE | 10. Targets | Cibles
ENTRELACS | BLACK MATCH FUSE DIPTYQUES ON CANVAS
FIRE | 11. Endless Pairs | Entrelacs Diptyques
LITHOCOMBUSTION | BURNED LITHOGRAPHS ON PAPER
FIRE | 12. Lithocombustion
ANONYMES CALCINES - ALLEGORY | BURNT ANONYMOUS PAINTINGS
FIRE | 13. Anonymes Calcinés | Allegory
ANONYMES CALCINES - PORTRAITS & ACADEMIES | BURNT ANONYMOUS PAINTINGS
FIRE | 14. Portraits & Academies | Anonymes Calcinés
ANONYMES CALCINES - MOVIE STARS 20th CENTURY | BURNT ANONYMOUS PAINTINGS
FIRE | 15. Movie Stars | Anonymes Calcinés
ARCS | COMBUSTIBLE THERMAL GEL & BLACK MATCH FUSE
FIRE | 16. Arcs
BLAST PRINTS / INCISES | DETONATING CORD ON MIXED MEDIA
FIRE | 17. Blast Prints I Incises
BOIS CALCINES | CHARRED WOOD
FIRE | 18. Charred Wood
