An exhibition to immerse you in the nightmarish world of David Lynch, as unique as it is fascinating
Review Drawing, painting, and photography channeled the creative impulses of the director of "Mulholland Drive" throughout his life, just as much as cinema did. Some of the lithographs of the artist, who recently passed away at the age of 78, are on display until September at the Galerie Duchamp in Yvetot. ★★★☆☆
“Smoke Fire” (2008), one of 50 lithographs by David Lynch exhibited at the Galerie Duchamp in Yvetot. THE DAVID LYNCH ESTATE, COURTESY ITEM EDITIONS, PARIS
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American director David Lynch, who died on January 16 at the age of 78, was first and foremost a visual artist. For the former student of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, filming was like painting with a camera. Throughout his life, drawing, painting, photography (and music) channeled his creative impulses just as much as the seventh art. Before his death, David Lynch had accepted the idea of exhibiting some of his lithographs at the Galerie Duchamp, a contemporary art center of national interest located in Yvetot—a city with half the population (25,000) of Twin Peaks.
In 2007, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris exhibited for the first time the little-known graphic work of the director of "Mulholland Drive," a nightmarish universe as singular as it is fascinating. During his stay in the capital, the American discovered the Idem printing workshop, in the Montparnasse district, frequented before him by Picasso, Matisse, and Miro. Fascinated by this practice, a combination of the sensitive and the me…
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