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One knows Franta for the exellent work that it presents since long years in the whole world, and for its researches of forms and harmonies to rare colors and contrasted.

But one knows it less in secret of a workshop, to the profit a noble causes, since it sagit of the reconstruction of Lebanon and the peace found.

It is on this theme that has "the Workshop of the Safranier", in the old Antibes , far of its den "Vençoise", it has realized in company of Dominique Prévost, the master of places, an engraving that represents a man sustaining the misery of the world, with courage .
And according to the method to the sugar, used by Picasso, that consists to work directly to the brush on the copper, the artist can to express without constraint, the most spontaneously possible .

This engraving will be published to 150 copies.
As for a sculpture, and with this technique, it invite however to make tests and experiences, not to hesitate to resume before to find the good test and - finally - to obtain the "good to pull" the artist.
It is necessary to know that with this technique if particular, very near the sculpture, each test is printed to the hand; since the encrage to the essuyage, each gesture has to be made manually .
There again, it does not is necessary to confuse engraving and lithography, the former allowing to employ techniques mechanized.
At the workshop of the Safranier, numerous are artists that come to try to this means of expression that used Rembrant, Dürer and Pyranèse , among others.
Among contemporaries, Gérard Eppelé, Bocca - Rossa, and others frequent regularly the workshop, as well as Lisa de Kooning, girl of Willem; students and professional Californiens come as regularly, since as they have learnt that to Antibes, one continues these techniques.

Indeed, the ascention lightning of the lithography had made forget more ancient techniques garage to the gout of the day in years 50 - by Picasso, brilliant "touch - whole" that had relaunched the engraving, in company of "School of Paris".

Claude Dronsard Journalist
"Nice Matin" 7 December 94