Photo of the Week – October 24, 2014

This week’s photo, titled Jean-Paul Marcheschi avec la chienne Tagine, features the French artist Jean-Paul Marcheschi and his dog Tagine in front of one of his pieces in the mid 90s. Born in Corsica in 1951, Marcheschi is a painter and sculptor based in Paris. Inspired profoundly by Dante’s Divine Comedy, he began using “the brush of fire” in his work in the mid 80s, a process which involves painting with soot, wax and smoke. In 1996, he was commissioned to do a piece for a production of Stravinsky’s The Firebird at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, a city where his work can also be seen in the metro station Carmes. For more information about the artist, take a look at his site. Photo by Thierry Hauvespre  via Flickr