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Lot Essay
'Aux toutes premières oeuvres de Parmentier à bandes alternées, obtenues au moyen de l'adhésif et souffrant encore de couleurs superflues (...), faisaient suite les pliages en accordéon aux ruptures nettes et brutales peu après on aurait dit minimales entre le peint et le non-peint. L'application uniforme d'une couleur unique, projetée à la bombe ou au pistolet, annulait toute gestualité expressive; la monochromie, brisée par le dépliage, étant une étape nécessaire qu'Hantaï, inspirateur direct de la méthode, n'avait pas encore atteinte.'
"The earliest works of Parmentier with alternating strips, produced using the adhesive method and still suffering from unnecessary colours (...), were followed by the accordion foldings with net and brutal breaks - shortly after we would have call them minimal - between the painted and the non-painted areas. The uniform application of a single colour, projected with aerosol or gun, eliminated any expressive gesture; the monochrome, broken by the unfolding, was a necessary step that Hantaï, the instigator of the method, has not yet achieved."
Alfred Pacquement
"The earliest works of Parmentier with alternating strips, produced using the adhesive method and still suffering from unnecessary colours (...), were followed by the accordion foldings with net and brutal breaks - shortly after we would have call them minimal - between the painted and the non-painted areas. The uniform application of a single colour, projected with aerosol or gun, eliminated any expressive gesture; the monochrome, broken by the unfolding, was a necessary step that Hantaï, the instigator of the method, has not yet achieved."
Alfred Pacquement