Philatelic document - Stamp festival - Street art - Juggler

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From the frescoes in the Egyptian tombs of Beni Hassan (2000 BC) to the engravings of the Chinese Han dynasty (200 BC), via Mesopotamia and the Aztec civilization, the origins of juggling are intertwined with the origins of humanity. Isn't the child's first reflex to throw the object he has seized? Then to catch it... a juggler is born! The juggler is not a physicist. He has no certainties, and defies the laws of weightlessness. Against Newton and Descartes, the juggler is the enemy of rationality. He is not a serious artist: he fights against gravity. His supernatural faculties have long made him a magician of objects and words. When minstrels, baladins and troubadours arrive in towns and villages in the blue of evening, the juggler is the bateleur who harangues the crowds. Until the 15th century, the term "jogleur" was used to describe all public entertainers. In 1947, at the meeting of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in Pittsburgh, jugglers disassociated themselves from magicians. The classic aerial juggler continuously throws at least three objects. Then, the artist made the show more complex by increasing the number and variety of objects thrown, which could even catch fire. The juggler can create astonishing trajectories by bouncing rubber or silicone objects off the ground, and he also suspends pendulums, as an artistic tribute to the physicist Foucault or the visual artist Calder. Between earth, fire and sky, the street juggler plays with illusion and visual magic with virtuosity. Balls, sticks, balls, plates, clubs, eggs, rings and everyday objects, both banal and unusual, fly, spin, bounce and reach for the stars in a multi-dimensional poetry. Daniel Cornut

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Timbre : création et gravure Louis Genty Document philatélique et cachet d'oblitération : création Louis Genty Texte : Daniel Cornut