Guy Braun presents an exhibition of around forty works at the Angélus gallery in Barbizon that could be titled "Freeze Frame". "There is a kind of urgency to save an emotion doomed to be annihilated by the next image," he confides. The artist isolates a scene from a German expressionist film, a classic of Russian cinema, the Polish and Hungarian avant-gardes, or even a film by Henri Verneuil. Impossible to recognize the actors, the aim is to capture the momentum of a character placed in a given space. "I use engraving techniques that are in harmony with the emotion I wish to serve. Thus, sugar aquatint allows me to capture movement thanks to the spontaneity of the brush. The mezzotint, on the other hand, amplifies the light and reveals the static mystery of the moment captured." But there is also the search for other blacks than those offered by the cradle, I then use carborundum, which gives effects of materials, of embossings difficult to achieve with more classic processes. " It is up to the spectator to have fun recognizing the films inspiring the artist and to invent the before and after of the snapshot represented

Marie Akar, rédactrice en chef d’Art et Métiers du Livre N° 362.