Author Description

Eric Fonteneau (born in 1954) travels the world as a designer. Since the end of the 1980s, he has thus taken the measure, or rather the excessiveness of the universe through a work that accounts for routes, faces or landscapes on the white sheet of paper. The artist, fascinated by geography, maps, portolans, since the inaugural piece entitled "The House of Maps". He transcribes in his works the meanders and detours of rivers, the movement of waves, as well as the contours and shapes of an island, an archipelago or a mountain. His work invites us on an imaginary journey, which takes place in the secrecy of the studio, or over the pages of a book. Eric Fonteneau's work has been questioning the geographical imagination since these firsts exploded pieces, poetic exploration of the archipelagos. The recent panoramas drawn in black chalk associating the different facets of nature, the mineral, the vegetal or the aquatic, passing through its cartographic projections or its collections of wonderful objects illustrating the fauna and flora, like so many curiosities, which come to enlighten our knowledge of the world.