| A few words about his work, what it expresses and about him.
My first works as a student of the Beaux-Arts referred to the Sacred Art. In those paintings, the eyes of the Virgin were shining with more carnal ecstasis, and as for Saint John, his desire was as intense as the colors of his crucifixions were dark. The Gothic Art of Matthias Grünewald, the baroque of Pontormo and the sublime Bronzino, the irritating art of Journiac were accompanying my searches in painting, etching and sculpture. Rapidly, my canvas became pure pornographic pictures in red, brown and black tinges. As a teenager, I read the Stories of O, the litterary storms of Sade. I was from then on looking for the lights of Georges Batailles, Pierre Klossovsky or Joé Bosquet. Charles Fourier made me laugh, the sententious Wilhem Reich was surprising me as well as he was boring me: I gave the image of a highbrow, weird and often solitary student. At the end of my studies, I was a father since one year. As soon as they ended, I wanted to provide for our needs, to have a regular salary. I hesitated to teach for a long time. The fear of using myself and the desire of a more direct connection with work pushed me away. I like the material independence given by that solution and the tension it maintains in me between the real world and my fantasy life.
Today, I paint in my apartment. In the living room, right on the floor, on big sheets, landscapes, portraits, remembrances, a ray of light on a chair. Under their lines, under their colors, are dominating the same tensions that drove my gestures and my eye from then. On the web site http://perso.orange.fr/eric.ecrement are published online the more recent inks that, even if not strictly speaking erotic, are the expression of that energy. Under the smooth aspect of that green vase go the same lights, the same passions than in the quill’s strokes where the lover is ridden by a beast. I like the idea that le Cercle lights up with its pornography all my works. It happened to me to exhibit some painting in a restaurant. I remember the owner asked me to not show some subjects. I was thinking then: be careful in the choice of your works! It quickly appeared to me that the internet was from this point of view a great opportunity. The image bank it gathers not only seems infinite, but the freedom of exhibition it gives seems total to me.
This is by the way thanks to the internet that I was able to sell my first erotic drawings to Hans-Jürgen Döpp, webmaster of Venusberg and very interested in erotic art. Receiving an order from him for a series of illustrations for Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille has been for me a real pleasure. A book dedicated to the representations of orgy has been published in 2007. Four of my drawings are reproduced within.
Today, when I sit down in front on my drawing table in my bedroom, I still hope to make an exhibition in a suitable place. I have edited a small book which shows some of my non-erotic inks. I really hope to realize this project this year.
Words gathered in April 2007
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