Pour les chômeurs intellectuels

• Antoine Poncet

Set of 12 enlargements of original stamps (stamps published during the Popular Front) reworked manually.
Digital printing on Canson 170 g paper, in a cardboard folder
12 ex. signed
29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
Edited by cneai ​​=, Chatou

As part of his exhibition at Cneai with the eponymous title, Antoine Poncet enlarged and reproduced 12 stamps published in the 1930s to support the “intellectual unemployed”. On the stamps, an attic (typical of the artist), or historical figures such as Hugo, Rodin, Pasteur or Balzac. The artist quotes Denis de Rougemont defining this type of “unemployed”: “It could be that the intellectual can experience a very particular form of pure unemployment: certain external circumstances are capable of killing in certain men even up to the activity of thought… “.

Series of 12 enlargements of original stamps enhanced manually Digital printing on 170g Canson paper, in a cardboard file A3 format Limited edition of 12 signed copies Published by cneai=, Chatou For the exhibition of  the same name, Antoine Poncet presents reproduces and enlarges a series of post stamps issued in the 1930s to support the “chômeurs intellectuals [unemployed intellectuals]“. These works are the testimonies of a world envisioned as a counterfeited spectacle: changing spectacle and changing the hypothesis like you change glasses to see what it’s like. €150,00