{"product_id":"cyan-years","title":"Jean-Vincent Simonet – Cyan Years","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduction and photography collapse in an experimental metaobject that takes Simonet's four-generation offset printing legacy as subject, method and site of production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrench artist Jean-Vincent Simonet works at the bleeding edge of photography, painting and mixed media, in an alchemical practice of reworking, overprinting and creating slippages within print processes, refined over the last decade inside the four walls of his own family's print works in Bourgoin-Jallieu, a fourth-generation enterprise to which the artist stands at the edge of that lineage. The title recalls a memory of his father coming home from the factory with blue hands from cyan ink, absorbed into skin that smelled of labour and dedication. In anticipation of the factory changing hands, Simonet has undertaken an exhaustive inventory of its innards, using the site itself as subject in the breaks between production schedules, evenings, weekends and holidays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCyan Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is characterised by a sequence that swirls and congeals like wet ink, mixing press interventions, tests and finished works, snapshot images that reference out towards Simonet's wider practice, the factory and family archive, and more. Holding these different registers together is the core series, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeirloom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which regurgitates the mass of materials, objects and information that constantly run through a printing factory into original artworks that bear the traces of their origin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSomewhere between index, archive and artist's book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCyan Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e holds the tension between the slippery distortions of Simonet, who sometimes lets all trace of the photographic wash away entirely, and the precise gestures of mechanics and expertise that his works both interrupt and uplift, the artistry and labour of those who deliver, discreetly, the printed matter of our quotidian: cheese labels, town hall flyers, holiday brochures, and this book. At once personal and experimental, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCyan Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e marks a specific period within Simonet's practice, the years in which the factory served as both tool and subject, and a farewell to an industrial family heritage whose future now hangs in the balance, part of a slow, symptomatic decline of offset printing across Europe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike a Möbius strip, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCyan Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents itself as an object with looping endings: images of the factory are further reworked and adapted within its own walls, only for these eventual artworks to be digitised, proofed and reproduced by the very offset processes they depict, with the book printed entirely inside the factory and subject to on-press interventions directly by the artist and publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJean-Vincent Simonet (b. 1991, France) is an artist whose practice interrogates how images are made, altered, and circulated. A 2014 graduate of ECAL, he has exhibited at Fotomuseum Winterthur, FOAM Amsterdam, and Centre de la Photographie Genève, and his work is held in collections including the Musée de l'Élysée, the Vontobel Art Collection, and the LUMA Foundation. His publications include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKitengela\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Mousse Publishing, 2024), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaterworks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (RVB Books, 2021), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (SPBH Editions, 2018). Since 2019, he has been a lecturer at ECAL in Lausanne. He lives and works between Paris and Zurich.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e176pp, 118 colour plates, 190 × 260 mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003eSection-sewn OTA-bound softcover with multiple paper stocks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eEdited by Sarah Chaplin Espenon \u0026amp; Jean-Vincent Simonet\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by Jean-Vincent Simonet \u0026amp; Loose Joints Studio\u003cbr\u003eWith texts by James Langdon \u0026amp; Salomé Burstein\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Loose Joints\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eLJ228, November 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eISBN 978-1-912719-81-5\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: rgb(241, 14, 14);\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" class=\"li1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ePre-order now and save 10% OFF! Limited to the first 100 copies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Loose Joints Publishing","offers":[{"title":"SIGNED Pre-Order 10% OFF","offer_id":55588083204472,"sku":"9781912719815S","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Regular","offer_id":55588083564920,"sku":"9781912719815","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0074\/1844\/5879\/files\/Jean-Vincent_Simonet_Cyan_Days_01.jpg?v=1782492445","url":"https:\/\/loosejoints.biz\/products\/cyan-years","provider":"Loose Joints Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}