Pierre Cordier

The history of the photography is populated with a succession aware or unconscious. In 1956, Pierre Cordier invents a process which he will name chimigramme. Fifty years later, he continues to investigate the infinite resources of his process which combines the physics of the paint (varnished, wax, oil) and the chemistry of the photography (photosensitive emulsion, revelation, fixative spray); without camera, without enlarger and in full light.

The chimigramme which appears from then on as an intimate fusion of both techniques, always gives place to an interesting debate. The purpose of Ropemaker is to obtain an image which looks like nothing else than a chimigramme, an image free of any reference: neither paint(painting), nor photography, nor drawing in the computer.

The exhibition(exposure) " Pierre Cordier, Age fifty of the chimigramme " establishes(constitutes) the review the most important review of its work after that presented in Brussels in 1988 to the Museum of modern Art