Serge Mendjisky - Le Goff Hervé. Monograph

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Summary

Youngest son of the Polish-born painter Maurice Mendjisky, Serge Mendjisky, born in 1929, was separated from his parents during the war years, during which he distinguished himself at a very young age through his activities in the Resistance. Thanks to his father, he had the privilege of rubbing shoulders with the greatest names in painting: Picasso and Dunoyer de Segonzac would devote an unwavering friendship to him.
An admirer of Van Gogh and Cézanne, Serge Mendjisky added to his passion for drawing an interest in Divisionism, to which he gave a new style between the 1950s and 2000s that earned him international fame.

Since the 90s, he has used macrophotography to revisit the codes of Pop Art. From 2000, he has given a pictorial dimension to photography. Using hundreds of worked shots, cut out and then pasted on canvas, he reorganizes space and time in the urban landscapes that he particularly likes.
The analytical deconstruction of his photographs, inspired by cubism, has become more complex over the years, in a series of artistic processes ranging from changes in scale to the mirror effect, through 3D spatialization and the treatment of the outline in arabesque.
With each experience, the artist invites us to a visual stimulation of an ever-renewed dynamic.