FROM PICASSO TO JASPER JOHNS
BNF - just see the poster for expo. The BNF, is I feel, a very off putting building, even to the extent of being « unfriendly ». If one doesn’t want to climb the stairs, there is a rather long detour to go up a hill and then enter the patio. After that you have to find the exhibition centre. What I really mean, is that there has to be a very good reason for going there: It was this……. Poster outside the BNF From Picasso to Jasper Johns – Aldo Crommelynck’s workshop.
Now who Aldo Crommelynck was - I certainly didn’t know. Here’s a text straight off the BNF home page. Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2008), printer of works of art, contributed in making Paris a famous city in the field of prints and engravings. Introduced to printing by the master-printer Roger Lacourière, he opens his own workshop in 1956 and collaborates with Tal Coat, Juan Miro, Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, André Masson, Georges Braque... His younger brother, Piero, comes and works with him. In 1963, t