{"id":1336,"date":"2023-02-07T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.com\/?page_id=1336"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:42:27","slug":"henri-beaufour-vu-par-massimo-bertozzi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/en\/henri-beaufour-vu-par-massimo-bertozzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Beaufour as seen by Massimo Bertozzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1336\" class=\"elementor elementor-1336\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5214ef0 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5214ef0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a5442c\" data-id=\"2a5442c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-c7e34b7 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c7e34b7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b9071e\" data-id=\"1b9071e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ec5e5a elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0ec5e5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Henri<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9fd65f elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e9fd65f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Text written by Massimo Bertozzi\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ae5ebd elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0ae5ebd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-0ae5ebd{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e6c968 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3e6c968\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-3e6c968{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d830fc8 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d830fc8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-no-translation=\"\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">From the dark that you miss comes the light that you loathe.\nJean-Pierre Velly<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-915ecae\" data-id=\"915ecae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38f9a94 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"38f9a94\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1344\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-1.jpg 744w, https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-1-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-1-11x12.jpg 11w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-afadea8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"afadea8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb14226\" data-id=\"cb14226\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e9cefd elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1e9cefd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1343\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-2.jpg 744w, https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-2-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/henri-beaufour.yohanndeprez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bertozzi-2-11x12.jpg 11w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1809f4f\" data-id=\"1809f4f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61bf4da elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61bf4da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Relief engraving is a practice that consists of removing material, whether from the softness of linoleum or the hardness of wood. But in reality, the result it aims for is the very opposite: a drawing out, through the highlighting of its contours, of an image seemingly suspended, as if taken unawares in the act of becoming, in the fragile interplay between solids and voids.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f249c52 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f249c52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u201cAs a xylographer,\u201d said Lorenzo Viani, \u201cI use a scalpel to remove the excess wood that covers the image.\u201d But that wasn\u2019t really quite how it worked, and even less so for a sculptor like Henri Beaufour, whose awareness of the images he unveils runs deep and clear.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9514cfd\" data-id=\"9514cfd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a21d08 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5a21d08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Indeed, for Henri, even this form of engraving remains an extension of his passion for drawing: another way of leaving a mark, different from the velvety lines of the pencil or the brilliant lines of the pen, but also different from those employed in etching, incised using a point and softened with acid.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d90b11e elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d90b11e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And so, what is immediately striking is the clarity of the flatness of the space, punctuated in perfunctory fashion by the simple, visually compact and almost geometric profiles of the bodies, despite the articulated development of the lines. It is also the contrast between the metaphysical blackness of the backgrounds and the frenzied lines in the foreground, but what impresses above all is the monumental structure of the subjects, giving the pose of the images a dialectal solemnity, alien to any aestheticism, and lending them an earthy physicality of surly faces, hard stares, strong hands, and bare feet.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e1d605c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e1d605c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2d8e8e2\" data-id=\"2d8e8e2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cdab376 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cdab376\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">His figures, each in their own bizarre way and at odds with the world, are embedded in the linoleum paste with unforgettable energy \u2014 a sea of austere faces and angular characters. So many slender and stylised subjects, delivered with sparse white lines cut into the black background of the paper; pallid faces emerging from a sea of ink; men and women, old and young, with looks at once suggesting their readiness to grab life with both hands, yet betraying the resignation of too many defeats; whatever the case, a collection of images revealed by next to nothing, and wherein the scarcity of the line is functional to the eloquence of the expression.  \n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a75a2c elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1a75a2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And then there are portraits with more character, those of almost physiognomic suggestion, in which an interest in expression prevails, whether grotesque or pathetic; where, through a simple, rigorous, and almost detached form, Henri records the variety of the human face with rationalist vigour and humorous exploration, grappling not so much with changes of mood as with the influences of deeper psychological and sentimental states. \n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a7aceca\" data-id=\"a7aceca\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-037e07f elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"037e07f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sometimes, the line appears more narrative \u2014 denser and more fiery \u2014 almost ready to bring out the depth of a space that is actually printed on the surface. Either way, the architectural structure of the figures always retains its essential geometry, the body of its volumes, its balance in space.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b0b886 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5b0b886\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">His cut-out narration, punctuated just as much by small cuts in the outlines as by breaks in the lines, succeeds in remaining malleable and fluid, even in places where it must emphasise a void. The effect thus achieved is one of great homogeneity and of regularity of strokes, even where the work is denser and more articulated, supported by the ability to propagate and extend across its surface a continuous and restless vibration, capable of involving the observer body and soul.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-67f59be\" data-id=\"67f59be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ae2b1c elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1ae2b1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And he does this without forcing the issue, even when wrestling with certain geometric constraints, such as one head that is square like a cardboard box, or another that is faceted like a primitive mask with hints of cubism: These, Henri resolves in a lively decomposition of the planes, without ever impeding on the volumes or flattening the spaces.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba6a6c4 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ba6a6c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In this respect, we would like to underscore the way in which Henri Beaufour does his utmost to eliminate the risk of two-dimensionality, as much in the extreme synthesis of bi-chromatism as in the space of large flat areas, the better to restore to the image its three dimensions, the thickness of the figures, and the depth of the space.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-130675f elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"130675f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And so it is that the fluid development of the lines organising space and defining volumes with a bare minimum of detailed strokes is superimposed on the flat darkness of the backgrounds, those spaces that are almost absolute, empty, and unreal \u2014 as if punctuating the small variations in light, marking out shadows but avoiding any decorative excess.     \n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e78641f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e78641f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-67b8c31\" data-id=\"67b8c31\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7284ede elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7284ede\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The contrast between light and shadow is established through rapid and sudden incisions that are reduced in size, with no need for highlights or blurred breakthroughs. This leaves the physical force of the cut intact and gives the hollowing out of the material a vertiginous depth, with sinuous, continuous lines that sculpt the shapes and planes, focusing any residual light on the faces and hands. \n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3c11fe elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e3c11fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sometimes, of course, it can happen that Henri allows himself to be overtaken by a certain expressive ardour. Then, and only then, do his outlines become extremely marked, the lines shortening and breaking, preparing the image for a synthetic rigidity approaching that of certain Expressionist xylographs \u2014 those of one Kirchner, for example \u2014 but always far less cold and, above all, less measured than his.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3fdae95\" data-id=\"3fdae95\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6089017 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6089017\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">His figures are always synthesised and fixed in a gesture, a grimace, a characteristic sign, with the simplicity of the white chalk that drew our childhood impressions on the blackboard.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b4c08c elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3b4c08c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The furrow of the engraving conveys a strong expressive charge but also more fragile emotional suggestions. Of course, the taste for synthesis and the speed of the gesture admittedly sometimes give way to distortions that exasperate the details, touching and deforming a boxer\u2019s nose, spilling over into a dancer\u2019s physique, or making a mockery of animal forms and drooping cellulite. But afterwards, everything comes into its own in the gaze of a sad clown, in the serene innocence of a gorilla, and even in the frenetic vibrations of a bee\u2019s wings.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1984648\" data-id=\"1984648\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3bd758 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e3bd758\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Because whatever the case, these subjects are always possessed of a monumental austerity, a seriousness that brooks neither vulgarity nor laughter. The proud and untamed appearance they maintain, their noble attitude, stems above all else from Henri Beaufour\u2019s profound respect for his work, which in his case means respect for mankind and for nature.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a3a0385 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a3a0385\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-73cbdfe\" data-id=\"73cbdfe\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91136c8 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"91136c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">All of life in a single stroke\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ac2f692 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ac2f692\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d9b3371\" data-id=\"d9b3371\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5f2f5d elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c5f2f5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Henri Beaufour\u2019s engravings are unexpected and surprising, like apparitions. They are striking for various reasons, but above all because they immediately reveal themselves to be ripe fruit, plucked at the right moment and in the blink of an eye by attentive and skilful hands.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac0fc20 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ac0fc20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">For many artists, engraving is a secondary path, almost a country lane down which to find an escape from their enforced Sunday rest; or worse, a shortcut like shooting haphazardly into the undergrowth to be sure of bringing at least some game back for the saddlebag.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd735aa elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd735aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">For Henri, the practice is more akin to a new outlet for his passion for drawing, which remains the core around which he continues to layer palpable images that are completely inseparable from the body of the sculpture.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c32ae5\" data-id=\"5c32ae5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70d61bb elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"70d61bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Everyone is familiar with the etching method, which involves acid eating into a copper or zinc plate where it is not covered by wax, that is, where the artist has scored it by drawing on it with a pointed instrument.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ee5e63 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9ee5e63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The skill lies in the stroke, so that the acid\u2019s corrosiveness eats in just enough \u2014\u00a0neither too much, nor too little \u2014 to allow the black outline to emerge precisely like that of a pen, yet retain a greasy, grainy imprint like that of a pencil or charcoal. This paves the way for the paper to penetrate the grooves and carry away the colour, without tearing it away, like the suction of the surf receding after the impetuous passage of the southwesterly wind.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5ae1ed9\" data-id=\"5ae1ed9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ea8c39 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0ea8c39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Only in this way is apparent ease transformed into the admirable outline that is the hallmark of Henri\u2019s work. It is the result of a fast, almost joyful way of doing things, constantly in search of a lively but not flashy expressiveness, which is an ironic and light-hearted way of distancing himself from academic expression. The outline takes on an urgency at times, particularly when it has to support the mental concentration of the self-portraits, as if wishing to kerb its enthusiasm but remain supple and fluid, neither rigid nor excited, ever mindful of not burdening the image with too much descriptive detail.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-323edcc elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"323edcc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Indeed, in the precision of the stroke there is never any search for atmospheric effects, even in the dizzying rush of a motorbike or the unremarkable dromedary pulling the plough: the outline is always intended solely to render the object plastically, and even the lightness of the background, misted over as if with a veil of dust, is spread without any rigidity, so that none of the image\u2019s spontaneity is lost.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cee3e03 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cee3e03\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a95d84\" data-id=\"4a95d84\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c7f88e elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1c7f88e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">There thus emerges a precise intention to purify the stroke: to dry it out, but not to the point of making it dry, while the background gives space to the finest lines to help them develop without making them lose their body and concreteness.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f380e7b elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f380e7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And yet, this way of scratching the plate is never improvised: It is methodical and considered, even when it appears to be a manifestation of ardour and impulsiveness. Henri never relies on the prestigious charm that the acid\u2019s bite might lend to even the most random stroke. What is important is to not flatten the sudden freshness of the emotion afforded by rapid and spontaneous printing, first on the plate and then on the paper. In this way, the stroke can be translated into images that are true in all their surprising nature, without losing the materiality it possesses, and which consists of marking out shapes and volumes.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1acd902\" data-id=\"1acd902\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f71b0ae elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f71b0ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">So even when the line takes on an urgency, as if out of a compelling need to fill the body of the form, we are witnesses not to any assiduous search for chiaroscuro, as with a sudden nostalgia for colour, but rather to the declaration of a sculptor\u2019s taste for matter over colour.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e544d4b elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e544d4b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Fillings such as these may even sometimes appear too pronounced, too cold, and too vain. Whatever the case, we can always check that they do not hinder the image that will manifest itself and appear if we allow the spontaneous patterns of perception to take effect.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c4f315 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5c4f315\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Henri likes to emphasise are the essential features of everyday and almost elementary truths \u2014 of people and animals, but almost never of things \u2014 using simple and direct outlines that, by drawing the casual contours of a formal ad hoc structure, bring forth precise physiognomies, identities, and characters out of anonymity.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f23d9a\" data-id=\"4f23d9a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2b0770 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c2b0770\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">This is true of animals, which are one of Henri\u2019s passions, because of their strange shapes so suited to his slightly wild taste for expressiveness. But for the most part, it is because animals, unlike people, do not take offence: One can be irreverent with them, as one might with a hen, which may be showcased freely in the most obscene aspect of its nature.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d882eaa elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d882eaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">But it is true as well and above all for the human figure, the essence of which can be constructed from nearly nothing. A profile, a contour line that unfolds from the pen to trace a body or a face, as if trailing in the wake of a silhouette that is oxidising, leaving barely a trace on the paper; but a trace that pulsates and represents that human figure, starting from this little nothing that breathes and speaks.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a56cc1 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9a56cc1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">For these figures, even when reduced to nothing but their contours and flattened on a plate, never lose their substance of being sculptures in momentary exile.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-93ec7e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"93ec7e3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ac2993a\" data-id=\"ac2993a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c136170 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c136170\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hence the power of the portraits, engraved as if on the margins, and unbeknownst to their subjects. Portraits in which there is more than resemblance, and from which the essence of the character emerges in particular, concentrated in its expressiveness: Vito\u2019s Nabis aura, Giovanni\u2019s dandyish detachment, Aldo\u2019s artisan concreteness.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b23ee8 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7b23ee8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">It is no coincidence that the drawing becomes rougher and bolder, with stained and meticulously thickened shadowing, highlighting a sharp nakedness of stroke, with cuts, spills, incisions, and connections of form and expression.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41fdfb9\" data-id=\"41fdfb9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0acae4 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f0acae4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">And then we find ourselves surprised once more by this plastic blossoming that emerges from a bare and disarmed instrumental poverty, from a solitary graphic style, barely shaded, that succeeds in weaving this fragile web in which so much truth remains imprisoned.\n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffd66c9 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ffd66c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">In the end, one wonders spontaneously where Henri Beaufour\u2019s ability to see and make us see comes from. Was he inspired by, or did he borrow from, the engravers who came before him? \n<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72ce635\" data-id=\"72ce635\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b299921 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b299921\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">It\u2019s possible. It\u2019s certain, even. 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