beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

OLIVIER GOURVIL, PEINTURES DESSINS 2004-2020

Olivier Gourvil / Antonia Birnbaum / Guitemie Maldonado

This monograph brings together works created by Olivier Gourvil over the last fifteen years, with the oldest dating back to 2004. The paintings form the central theme of this monograph, which is punctuated and sequenced by drawings. The artist's paintings filter through an immense repertoire of sign structures, some of which are derived from urban or bodily signs. This monograph allows us to observe the evolution of this repertoire over the last fifteen years. It also highlights the strong and constantly evolving relationship between two major blocks of work: painting and drawing.
 The drawings, almost always in black and white, revolve around painting in three distinct forms: preparatory drawings, autonomous drawings, and ghost drawings.

The monograph therefore seeks to express these connections through the choice of works, layouts, and papers, as well as through two texts by Antonia Birnbaum and an interview with the artist by Guitemie Maldonado.

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Le Monde à plat

Paul Pouvreau / Julien Zerbone / Antonia Birnbaum / Charles Pennequin

By recomposing the image, Paul Pouvreau spreads the world out before our eyes, revealing its nature as a palimpsest, an accumulation of layers of meaning, materials, and stories. It takes infinite rigor and precision on the part of the photographer for meaning to flow between planes and objects, for the pillar to enter into dialogue with the pouch in the absence of any hierarchy, for the runner to stride over the bush, for the poppies to invade the real estate project, for confusion to reveal the hidden meaning of things. In terms of photography, we should talk about a surgical act, a gesture of opening and then suturing space, which brings together what was previously separate. (Julien Zerbone)

Three authors each take up a particular aspect of the work:

the poet Charles Pennequin,

the philosopher Antonia Birnbaum,

and the art historian Julien Zerbone.

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