La Pitié-Salpêtrière, 2020
Philippe Weisbecker  

Print : digigraphy, digital print · 39 x 30 cm 15.4 x 11.8 inch

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Print : numbered and limited to 25 copies

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All mobilized for the hospital.
"For all caregivers of Pitié-Salpêtrière" / "Un Print pour la santé"

Print from the "A Print for Health" Series.
Original pigment print by Philippe Weisbecker
Limited edition of only 25 numbered and signed copies.

Printing on Etching rag 310 g.
Paper size 39 x 30 cm
Print / RLD workshop.

The profits will be donated to the Pitié-Salpêtrière AP-HP hospital and engraving weekends at the Métairie Bruyère will be offered to caregivers.

Publisher / Artistic and charitable association "Aux 4 vents de l'art" / Photo © Éditions RLD

The numbering may differ from that of the photo.
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Philippe Weisbecker, La Pitié-Salpêtrière
Senegal  • 1942

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Philippe Weisbecker, born in 1942 in France, is a contemporary French illustrator and draftsman recognized for his minimalist graphic language and sensitive gaze on everyday objects. Graduating from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD) in 1966, he then spent two years in Tunisia, where he directed the graphic department of the National Tourism Office. In 1968, he settled in New York, a city where he developed a brilliant career as an illustrator for press, publishing, and advertising for nearly forty years. He collaborated notably with The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and many major American agencies, before returning to settle in France in 2006, where he dedicates himself mainly to personal artistic practice.

Philippe Weisbecker's work is immediately recognizable by its economy of means and the precision of his line. Created in pencil, ink, gouache, watercolor, or painting, his drawings represent tools, shoes, gloves, furniture, architecture, workshops, vehicles, or industrial objects, reduced to their essential form. The artist is interested in the discreet beauty of ordinary objects, transforming them into true portraits imbued with poetry. His approach, influenced by design, modernism, minimalism, and Japanese visual culture, celebrates the simplicity, function, and memory of manufactured objects.

Starting in the 2000s, Philippe Weisbecker develops a freer body of work, situated at the border between contemporary illustration, art drawing, and contemporary art. His travel notebooks, his representations of workshops, industrial spaces, or urban landscapes testify to a constant interest in anonymous architectures and utilitarian objects. His deliberately streamlined graphic vocabulary highlights the imperfections of the gesture and the materiality of the paper, giving each of his works a presence that is both fragile and timeless. His work maintains a permanent dialogue between observational drawing, graphic design, and contemporary creation.

Japan occupies an essential place in his artistic journey. A laureate of a four-month residency at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (French Institute of Japan), he develops a privileged relationship with Japanese aesthetics and creates numerous editorial and artistic projects inspired by local heritage. He has received several international awards, including prizes granted by the JAGDA, the New York Art Directors Club (NYADC), the Tokyo Art Directors Club, the Clio Awards, and the Cannes Lions, testifying to his major influence in the field of illustration and graphic design. In 2020, he was selected to design one of the official posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, cementing his recognition on the international stage.

His work has been the subject of numerous personal and collective exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Among recent exhibitions are Lost Weekend at the Allen Gallery (Paris, 2021), The Ending '23 at Creation Gallery G8 (Tokyo, 2023), as well as several exhibitions dedicated to his work at Fotokino in Marseille and the Gallery A4 in Tokyo. Alongside his exhibitions, Philippe Weisbecker publishes several reference books, including Hand Tools (2016), Accessoires (2011), Intimacy (2013), and the monograph Works in Progress (2018), which trace more than fifty years of creation.

Currently based between Paris and Barcelona, Philippe Weisbecker is considered one of the major figures in contemporary drawing, French illustration, and graphic art. His work, present in many private and institutional collections, captivates with its ability to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary. Between minimalism, visual poetry, design, contemporary drawing, and illustration, Philippe Weisbecker develops a timeless universe where every object becomes the silent witness to our collective memory.

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