Description: Dominique Digeon was born in Paris in 1959. He lives and works near Paris. He passed the Agregation of art (the highest competitive exam for teachers in France) in 1994, was introduced as an artist by Jean Dewasne and won the Pierre Cardin price for painting, attributed by the Beaux-Arts (the French academy of fine art).
The inventor of the peeled papers technique, Dominique Digeon has been « painting » since he was twelve, adding new forms to his work, series after series. From the bounded surfaces (1985) to the Raising (2007), along with Tondos (round canvasses), the Painted Chess Games, the Multiportraits, the Vanités, the Unichromes, the Tirets, the cut out, scratched, torn Papers, the Photos and enriched books…his s