Patrick Tosani
artiste
Né en 1954, Patrick Tosani vit et travaille à Paris et à Mayet (France). Il fait des études d’architecture à Paris de 1973 à 1979. Il développe un travail photographique depuis 1976 où les questions d’espace et d’échelle sont centrales. Le processus photographique, ses potentialités, ses limites, la relation au réel sont constamment interrogés. Il expose régulièrement en France et à l’étranger. Ses œuvres figurent dans de nombreuses collections publiques en France et à l’étranger. Il réalise plusieurs commandes publiques à Metz, Paris, Villeurbanne et Beauvais. Il est lauréat du Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique en 1983 et du Prix Niépce en 1997. Il enseigne à l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris depuis 2004. Il est représenté par la Galerie In situ / Fabienne Leclerc à Paris.
Des images comme des oiseaux
Patrick Tosani / Pierre Giner / Marie José Mondzain / Laurent Roth / Pascale Cassagnau / François Quintin
This book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive inventory of the photographic collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), in which Patrick Tosani immersed himself for over three years. It retraces the methodology and approach by which the artist composed his iconographic juxtapositions. After the inventory itself, the reader can, as they turn the pages, follow the artist's gaze and zoom in on the collection to discover the photographs he selected according to criteria that blend the subjective and the scientific.
This selection of more than 700 images, arranged alphabetically by artist's name, is laid out like the plates of Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. These compositions, which respect the proportions of the works in relation to one another, reflect the exhibition design created by Patrick Tosani and Pierre Giner, which emphasizes unexpected encounters between the works and rejects any hierarchy of their authors or photographic genres.
An unprecedented exchange between philosopher Marie-José Mondzain and critic Laurent Roth focuses on the question of how images are received today. Patrick Tosani and Pierre Giner, in their interview with François Quintin, discuss their meeting, their collaboration, and the working method they used to implement this original project.
Des images comme des oiseaux
33 x 37 cm, 148 pages, approximately 700 full-color reproductions, paperback with flaps, French/English
Graphic design: Trafik
This book was co-published with the Centre national des arts plastiques
ISBN: 978-2-919507-15-3