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3. Daniel Guillotin
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Notes of biography

Daniel Guillotin is 48, born in Caen where he currently lives and works. He graduates in 1984 from the Fine Arts Institute in Caen and creates immediatly a joint graphic design agency. Daniel Guillotin satisfies his addiction for images, semiology, letters, the relationship text-image and the composition. In 1995, after this first experience, he joins friends in another agency, still active.
Five years ago, he decides to stand back with his job, working less for the others and more for him; during a year he builds his own workshop, sets up an association where adults are guided in their expression of fine arts. It will be « L’Atelier du haut de la rue ». Daniel Guillotin creates his own space, sets up an etcher’s press, blotters, an inking layout; during few months, he learns etching again (technique approached at the time of its studies) in Erik Bersou’s atelier (etcher in Normandy), before etching takes hold of him definitely. « Pierre Soulages fascinates me to the point of inhibition » says Daniel Guillotin and the young artist took years to forget him ! With time, Guillotin does without him, he just does.
In his work, Daniel is always obsessed with the idea of making the etcher’s tool unseen. According to him, that is what abstraction needs. When he speaks about the tool, he thinks about the movements it reveals. Too real. Probably an attraction for dream, thought and simply imagination. « Work we have left to do in front of a suggestion ». Rapidly, he will leave aside the standard tools, indicating movements, to imagine and develop different techniques: traditional and opened to experimentation.
Daniel Guillotin works a lot with textures. He knows the pleasure of touch. Make no mistake about it, he likes color, he likes it when it is almost there. He has an appointment with light, the one that comes from dark. In general, the artist work starting from sketches which take the form of the mental images of his moment of life; these "images" are full of sounds, perfumes, light, glances… in two dimensions.
Mysterious work, most of the time accomplished in a vertical space (meaning standing up !), secrete gateways for the joy of forgetting or just to live in harmony.

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