By: François Houtin

Medium: etching
Image Size: 7.13 × 5.13 inches
Edition: 5/40
Year: 1974

In Molvout, François Houtin merges organic vitality with the crumbling geometry of architecture. The composition presents a fantastical form that seems part tree, part tower, entwined with foliage, tendrils, and flowing ribbons of growth. Houtin’s etching technique captures the tension between construction and decay, order and imagination. Like much of his early work, Molvout reveals the artist’s fascination with hybrid forms—structures that sprout and breathe, as if reclaimed by nature’s slow, deliberate artistry. The result is a vision both whimsical and meditative, where architecture becomes alive with botanical transformation.