Vincent CORPET - Marquis de SADE. 602 drawings based on the - Lot 518

Vincent CORPET - Marquis de SADE. 602 drawings based on the 602 passions recounted by the 4 historians of D.A.F. de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, Le Massacre des innocents, 1995. According to Philippe Sollers, in Le Monde, March 24, 1995: "Vincent Corpet, with a gesture whose exceptional energy must be measured, wanted us to hear a certain silence in Sade. Indeed, Sade is a silent torrent. The meticulous accumulation of torments, the destruction of bodies, the multiplication of speeches, postures and acts, the enormous inverted liturgy that makes up this monument of words, lead, one might say, to an empty cavern. [...] Corpet has grasped this insatiable appetite. He has resolved the impossibility of showing Sade by making a series of cuts that rigorously correspond to what is being told. It's a book of engravings, a book of hours, giving the idea of endless visible variation. How does he do it? He proceeds by scratching a black circle, light gradually appearing, mass rather than line, the inside of the paper speaks, it's the implacable mechanics of Jacques Callot to the measure of a reality that strips away the lie of a humanity claiming to be good. Circles, says Corpet, "make everything possible". Where the square closes, the circle opens, letting the outside in. Sade's hyperpornography (heads, limbs, sexes, traps, twists, mute screams) is targeted, not reduced. The Sadian cathedral wanted its rose window: here it is, black and white, classic, unexpected, solid, free cruelty of indestructible desire."