Engraving Extraterrestrial - Fabrice Hyber

For Extraterrien, a commission from the Chalcographie du Louvre, Fabrice Hyber sought to evoke the powerful energy that emanates from this museum. He combined the Louvre pyramid with the Man of Bessines, one of the symbols of his work, and added the word 'giant' in a multitude of languages, highlighting the Louvre's role both as a place that reflects the diversity of civilisations and as a source of inspiration for all audiences.

Since the late 1980s, Fabrice Hyber has played a major role in defining art beyond formal boundaries and in relation to the challenges of contemporary society. His career has been marked by numerous interventions in public spaces, such as L'Homme de Bessines, an anthropomorphic sculpture from which water gushes through its orifices, installed since 1991 in numerous towns and cities in France and abroad.

The artist engraved his work on two plates, one using aquatint and the other using soft ground. By printing them one after the other onto the same sheet of paper, it was possible to produce a multi-coloured print.

Intended for sale, the prints of this engraving are neither signed nor numbered, thus adhering to the Chalcographie's founding principle of making art accessible to as many people as possible.