Patrick Weidmann
Artiste
Né en 1958, Patrick Weidmann, vit et travaille à Genève, Suisse. Il entame au début des années 1980 un travail de peinture abstraite. Il en revisite les sémantiques et les récurrences. Il ajoute des photos et objets divers pour conclure sur des « installations ». Il a exposé dans de nombreux musées et centres d’art. Outre son activité de plasticien et de photographe, il a publié plusieurs romans Lune des porcs, Éditions Dasein, Poupées mortes amusées, Éditions Dasein, Bimboplastie, Éditions JRP/Ringier…) et a réalisé plusieurs films expérimentaux
Psychorama
Patrick Weidmann
Psychorama compiles more than 200 photographs taken by Patrick Weidmann over the last twenty years. His gaze has always focused on a world made of objects, consumption-devoted spaces, waiting rooms, all shimmering with lights and mirrors and striped of human presence… As if the artist transported his reader beyond an advertising screen, into a world where nothing is left of humanity but its commercial imprint and vanity. The book’s layout reinforces this projection into a familiar yet dystopian universe, where overconsumption has taken over.
Psychorama
23×31,5 cm, 276 pages, circa 200 reproductions, paperback with flaps.
Text: French / English. Graphic design: Camping Sauvage.
Abstraction faite
Patrick Weidmann
Patrick Weidmann, deliver in Abstraction faite another facet of his multiple talents: writing. Between the essay and the aphoristic form, the author explores by touches our contemporary world in a style always lively and sharp, taking the reader sometimes to the approaches of nonsense.
In a few shortcuts, here is what constitutes the world of writing of Patrick Weidmann: the society of tourism, the world after God, the great masterpieces of past centuries, photography, objects and beings of fantasies, Elena Ceausescu, the dream, the real, the war, the cocktails, the stars, money, astrophysics, style, post-dandyism… all this and more, dotted with memories and reflections, on what makes a creator’s life today.
The essay is covered with photographic works by Patrick Weidmann, autonomous in relation to the narrative and far from illustration, just coming to slightly open up other dimensions.
Abstraction faite
14 x 21 cm, 196 pages, 30 reproductions in duotone, paperback cover. French text.
Graphic design: Danish Pastry Design
ISBN: 978-2-84314-126-3
ISBN: 9782843141263