Jean-Pierre Hébert
Slide #19 / 1997
from “DNA Studies” series (detail)
Drawing, ink on paper, 21″x34″

This and the next piece result from a commission requiring DNA for theme. The intent was to create a series of time pieces evoking the DNA story, resulting in research on strands, ribbons, and helices and imposing a formal constraint.

Jean-Pierre Hébert
Slide #21 / 1998, III
from “Inferno” series
Iris print, 19″x26″

A very dark illustration for a page of Dante’s Divine Comedy (Inf. III, 9) “All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”.

Jean-Pierre Hébert
Slide #23 / 1998, “Tessiture Taciturne”
Iris print, 19″x26″

This is built over a favorite quiet and simple motif, to be enriched by a sumptuous and fine texture (the subtle nuances hardly showing on slides).

Jean-Pierre Hébert
Slide #25 / 1999
from “Hundred Views” series (detail)
Iris print, 19″x19″

This is one among the “Hundred Views of a Polyline”, a series built on a widened representation and interpretation of lines in the context of a classic theme by Max Bill. This series is an on-going research and has proven being very fertile, revealing many surprisingly beautiful possibilities arising from latent mathematical orders at all scales.