JEAN-PIERRE HEBERT & VICTOR RAPHAEL COLLABORATION
The collaboration between Hébert and Raphael first began in 2001, with a two-person exhibition curated by Susanna Meiers at El Camino College in Southern California titled, Unus Mundus. Hébert states, “I felt that Victor shares my attraction for spiritual and thoughtful works and is totally dedicated to quality; being so close and so different, it became intriguing to find out what we could do working together. So we tried enough to want to continue this mind opening challenging experience.” Raphael states, “I was intrigued by the unique combination of intelligence, sensuality and spirituality in Jean-Pierre’s work. I first selected some of his pieces which I could illuminate with gold and metal leaf applications, then gave him some of my digital files to rework.” Since then, they have been passing work back and forth, improvising and responding to each others creative impulses and processes.
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Spiral Nebula with Ghost, 2001 - Laser print with gold leaf 4.5” x 9.25”
Spiral Nebula Payne’s Grey and Red, 2002 - plotter ink drawing, 8.75” x 8.75”
Getty Water with Rorschach V, 2002 - laser print, 6” x 14”
Mount Huang, 2002 - intaglio with metal leaf, 12” x 9”
Dancing Gold, 2002 - intaglio with metal leaf, 12” x 9”
Untitled I, 2011 - ink jet print with metal leaf, 22” x 17”
Untitled III, 2011 - ink jet print with gold leaf, 22” x 17”
Untitled IV, 2011 - ink jet print with copper leaf, 22” x 17”
Spiral Nebula with Rorschach, 2001 - ink jet print, edition of 5, 4” x 8.25”
Spiral Nebula Graphite, 2002 - plotter graphite drawing, 8.75” x 8.75”
Getty Water with Rorschach I, 2002 - laser print with metal leaf, 5.5” x 8”
Blue Waves and Gold Pillars, 2002 - intaglio with gold leaf, 9” x 9”
Aben Hakam El Bokhari’s Maze (after Jorge Luis Borges), 1994-2001 - laser print with gold leaf, 9” x 9”
Untitled II, 2011 - ink jet print with metal leaf, 22” x 17”
Untitled II, 2012 - ink jet print with metal leaf, 22” x 17”
Untitled V, 2011 - ink jet print with gold and metal leaf, 22” x 17”