The Stampographer traverses the fantastic anarchic imagination of Parisian artist Vincent Sardon born 1970 whose dark combative sense of humor is infused with Dadaist subversion and Pataphysical play.Using rubber stamps he designs and manufactures himself Sardon commandeers a medium often associated with petty and idiotic displays of bureaucratic power then uses those stamps not to assert authority but to refuse it. He scours the Parisian landscape as well as the world at large skewering the powerhungry and the pretentious reveling in the vulgar and profane. In The Stampographer there are insults in multiple languages sadomasochistic Christmas ornaments and a miniature Kamasutra with an autoerotic Jesus. Sardon also wields the stamp as satirical device deconstructing Warhol portraits into primary colors turning ink blots into Pollock paint drips and clarifying just what Yves Klein did with womens bodies. Yet Sardons razorsharp wit is tinged with the irony of his exquisite sense of beauty. The stamps are rarely staticthey have an animating magic whether boxers are punching faces out of place or dragonflies seemingly hover over the page.Sardons work is provocative in its subject matter as well as in its process and dissemination he not only stands defiantly outside the art worlds modes of commerce but his artworks the rubber stamps themselves are actually the means with which anyone can make a work of their own. The Stampographer introduces Englishspeaking readers to one of the most unusual and original voices in contemporary French culture.