Fresh Light

Joseph Dadoune (drawings)
Donatien Grau (text)

Fresh Light - the book presents bright colours and spontaneous compositions, an imaginary spiritual creation that is both intimate and contemplative. Traces of internal journeys are revealed on the threshold of the visible world and the invisible, a gift of happiness capturing the colours of the world. Fields of wild fennel and Cypress trees planted in windbreaks act as a gateway for the soul, at the border of paradise. An invitation to be surprised by what I have created.

Joseph Dadoune

Book, Studio, Museum, Laboratory

Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune’s notebook is a travel diary: each drawing was made at a place where he was sojourning, while on "holiday.” Dadoune uses pastel to create the physical aspect of accumulated material. Pastel remains constantly alive: even when fixed, it never leaves its own unsettled aspect. This notebook, albeit not produced in the artist's routine workplace, is his paradoxical studio. It is where things that will later further develop throughout his practice are invented, defined, redefined.

Donatien Grau

Format 16.5 x 24 CM 192 p - 80 colour reproductions
English text by Donatien GRAU Cover paper: Freelife Vollum White 170 g Flaps Print of the cover in 2 direct colors: golden bronze (pantone 8005) and purple (Pantone Medium Purple)
Inside paper: Munken Print White 115 g bouffant 1.8 Visible stitched notebooks