Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune – Blancs catalog
Catalogue designed in 2022 by studio Baldinger•Vu-Huu, on the occasion of the exhibition Blancs by Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune at Galerie Éva Vautier in Nice, France. This exhibition is centered around his white paintings.
Faire écran (extract), Barbara Wolffer:
In his Parisian studio, far from the light of the Mediterranean shores, Joseph Dadoune has written a new page in his artistic practice. One might be tempted to say a blank page, so much so that white occupies a significant place in the works of his new series entitled White screen, without precedent in his career. After black, yellow, and intense colours, here comes the irruption of white. Its brilliance, its power, its nuances, its opacity, its blinding character too. One would be tempted to say that for Joseph Dadoune, it is a question of creating a screen. Veiled windows, blank frames, buried screens, opaque mirrors, blind walls, covered or glimpsed objects: in these works, in fact, the gaze is stopped, the image or the object hidden, absent, crossed out, impossible even. The artist endeavours to cover, mask, veil, bury.
This 86-page book brings together French, English, Hebrew and Japanese texts. Text in the first two languages is set in BVH Anto Rounded, while IBM Plex Mono serves for the others.
