BOOK: Eva Garcia-Taille Douce, Spazio Nobile

This book is the  catalogue of her second solo exhibition “Taille douce”, where Eva Garcia presented a body of new work based on her two practices: engraving, in dialogue and resonance with sculpture, as a shared vision of the state of the world. Weight, density and texture are omnipresent in a tactility that is both visual and haptic. The strength and fragility of elements such as the human body or rock enter into tension with the eye, provoking a profound emotion that is both total and fragmented. Éva Garcia’s practice is mainly centred on engraving, of which she uses all the techniques, including sugar, burin, point, and cradle, gradually favouring direct engraving. She offers us visions that are both ethereal and tangible, impressions of an experimental nature. What interests her is the image, which in its very essence is multiple, evolving from its inscription to its inevitable dispersion. Although she begins her work by incising a matrix, the artist plays with the principle of the print and its identical multiplication, by intervening on the print itself or by working on the printing supports. It is not a question of variations in series but of repeated, transposed, multiple writings, operating a transfer of language. Through these games, these experiments, these interpenetrations of gestures, techniques and materials, through the formats which impose a physical investment of the whole body, the confrontation with the material is at the same time rough, harsh but also subtle.-Efi Michalarou