Cet ouvrage rassemble le résultat des dernières années de prises de vue du photographie Éric Antoine. Loin du bruit de la ville, cet artiste en retrait volontaire produit une oeuvre rare dont la source est à trouver dans la répétition et la quête d’une perfection – technique d’abord, formelle ensuite – plutôt que dans l’obsession de l’utilisation d’un outil et d’un procédé chimique. Il a ainsi choisi le collodion humide comme le meilleur moyen de s’installer dans la lenteur, la patience et la réflexion. Introspection portée à son paroxysme, son expérimentation cherche sans cesse à trouver l’équilibre entre la bonne lumière et le bon cadre. Recherche intime et personnelle, elle n’a de sens que parce qu’elle s’inscrit dans le quotidien de l’existence. Avec Useful Lies, son univers si expressionniste s’affirme avec encore plus de densité et de nuances. Le laborieux travail du photographe s’est attaché à pousser toujours plus loin la perfection de ses compositions, objets métaphoriques hors du temps et des lieux. On retrouve certains éléments récurrents, notamment les figures féminines, l’omniprésence de la nature, arbres, végétaux, les objets familiers du quotidien, table ou chaises en bois, nappes immaculées, assiettes, tasses, parfois brisées, ou objets anciens de décoration : tout nous lie au temps qui passe et s’évapore en même temps que les souvenirs qu’il emporte avec lui. Éric Antoine nomme ses séries : frénésie du silence, complexe de simplicité, résilience, particules, les cerveaux,drowning flowers, jusqu’à ses useful lies... Le deuil et la tristesse, la quête de l’être aimé trop tôt disparu mais que l’on ne veut jamais oublié, ont peu à peu laissé surgir, par la puissance de la création, la joie et la vie, symbolisées par la présence d’une balle de lumière, comme surnaturelle, dans les images...
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ÉRIC ANTOINE (photographies) Il a passé l’essentiel de son début de carrière, notamment aux USA, à photographier la vie urbaine, l’univers des skateurs, les fans éplorés de Michael Jackson. Depuis 2009, il se consacre à la pratique du collodion humide sur verre grand format et place ainsi la question de la matérialité de l’image au coeur des ses recherches. Dans une approche quasi-sculpturale, il crée de véritables photographies-objets, miroitantes et argentées. Loin de toute nostalgie, ce procédé est une discipline émancipatrice. En s’assurant la pleine maîtrise de son processus, le photographe mêle ainsi la forme et l’esprit, la recherche artistique et son histoire intime. Après Ensemble Seul, Useful Lies est le deuxième livre d’une collection qui, à terme, en comptera cinq.
By using an older form of technology, French artist Éric Antoine strips away modern-day conceits in the quest for simplicity, solitude, and core truths. The works speak to the passage of time but also to a sense of timelessness. Useful Lies brings together several series among the last he produced. Aside from a single cardboard box in Les Intrus - a series that highlights the human body and the fragility of shelter - nothing in the photographs dates them. And yet, his framing and cropping are entirely modern, subverting any suggestion of nostalgia. These are not attempts to replicate nineteenth-century photographs but rather forays into unchartered territory that use the past to draft new stories.
The collodion process also helps visually convey the feeling of being caught between two forces: the drive toward perfection and the desire to embrace flaws. More specifically, Antoine is drawn both to German New Objectivity of the 1920s, with its rejection of Expressionism, and to the movement known as pictorialism. His medium dovetails with his interest in New Objectivity by allowing for great precision and very fine detail. At the same time, the process is highly pictorial in that the artist essentially paints the glass plate with a sensitive coating, which pools and drips and must be controlled. This tension between exactitude and imperfection opens up the works, creating scenes that are both true to nature and evocative of their own realities.
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Hardback. Etat : New. By using an older form of technology, French artist Éric Antoine strips away modern-day conceits in the quest for simplicity, solitude, and core truths. The works speak to the passage of time but also to a sense of timelessness. Useful Lies brings together several series among the last he produced. Aside from a single cardboard box in Les Intrus - a series that highlights the human body and the fragility of shelter - nothing in the photographs dates them. And yet, his framing and cropping are entirely modern, subverting any suggestion of nostalgia. These are not attempts to replicate nineteenth-century photographs but rather forays into unchartered territory that use the past to draft new stories.The collodion process also helps visually convey the feeling of being caught between two forces: the drive toward perfection and the desire to embrace flaws. More specifically, Antoine is drawn both to German New Objectivity of the 1920s, with its rejection of Expressionism, and to the movement known as pictorialism. His medium dovetails with his interest in New Objectivity by allowing for great precision and very fine detail. At the same time, the process is highly pictorial in that the artist essentially paints the glass plate with a sensitive coating, which pools and drips and must be controlled. This tension between exactitude and imperfection opens up the works, creating scenes that are both true to nature and evocative of their own realities. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9782490952212
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Hardback. Etat : New. By using an older form of technology, French artist Éric Antoine strips away modern-day conceits in the quest for simplicity, solitude, and core truths. The works speak to the passage of time but also to a sense of timelessness. Useful Lies brings together several series among the last he produced. Aside from a single cardboard box in Les Intrus - a series that highlights the human body and the fragility of shelter - nothing in the photographs dates them. And yet, his framing and cropping are entirely modern, subverting any suggestion of nostalgia. These are not attempts to replicate nineteenth-century photographs but rather forays into unchartered territory that use the past to draft new stories.The collodion process also helps visually convey the feeling of being caught between two forces: the drive toward perfection and the desire to embrace flaws. More specifically, Antoine is drawn both to German New Objectivity of the 1920s, with its rejection of Expressionism, and to the movement known as pictorialism. His medium dovetails with his interest in New Objectivity by allowing for great precision and very fine detail. At the same time, the process is highly pictorial in that the artist essentially paints the glass plate with a sensitive coating, which pools and drips and must be controlled. This tension between exactitude and imperfection opens up the works, creating scenes that are both true to nature and evocative of their own realities. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9782490952212
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