Xavier Veilhan - The Drawing Center: Today's Special - Lockdown Drawings 2020-2021

Published by Les Presses du Réel, with the Consortium, 2021Clothbound hardcover, 232 pages16.5 x 21.5 cm | 6.5 x 8.5 inText in English and FrenchEdited by Xavier Veilhan and Franck GautherotISBN: 9782378962494*From the publisher: Featuring 155 drawings made on a daily basis by Xavier Veilhan since March 2020. Through his portraits and landscapes, his bestiary and his architectures, Xavier Veilhan (born 1963 in Lyon, lives and works in Paris) pursues a constantly regenerated reflection on the status of representation and the materialization of an idea, using the same space for sculpture, painting and photography. A manufacturer of the visible, he invents works, images, and objects that hesitate between the familiar and the strange. Interested in modernity and using references ranging from classical statuary to Futurism and Op art, Veilhan has been compared to artists such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. For Jean-Pierre Criqui he is "a perfect example of a Pop artist for the 21st centur