Introducing English-speaking readers to one of the most unusual and
original voices in contemporary French culture.
*AIGA*
Sardon is firm about his practice, which is rooted at once in
experience and “utter uselessness” (a stamp isn’t food, it isn’t a
roof). There is a punky purity here too.
*LA Review of Books*
Its pages produce a kind of alternate bureaucracy, a profane portal
dedicated not to renewing your driver’s license but to spreading
chaos and fatalism, one inky impression at a time.
*Paris Review*
Gorgeously uncouth, cynical, and—in moments—despairing, Sardon’s
work primarily revels in a Dada-like spirit of playful
inconsequence and good-natured goading, and it’s expertly captured
here.
*Publishers Weekly*
For me, the most exciting book of the Fall publishing season
(featuring one of the best covers) is The Stampographer, which
showcases the fantastic, anarchic imagination of Parisian artist
Vincent Sardon … There are insults in multiple languages,
sadomasochistic Christmas ornaments, and a miniature Kama Sutra
with an auto-erotic Jesus. Sardon also uses the stamp as satirical
tool and weapon, deconstructing Warhol portraits into primary
colors, turning ink blots into Pollock paint drips, and clarifying
just what Yves Klein did with women’s bodies. Whew!
*Print Magazine*
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