ANTOINE POUPEL – ROMAN BODIES
The exhibition “Corps Romains” by Antoine Poupel continues until October 28.
Come visit or revisit!
The &co119 Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition – Corps Romains by Antoine Poupel.
Antoine Poupel, a visual artist photographer, likes to transgress his images, re-examine Reality, and divert the habits of the viewer's eye.
Thus, he lets his fertile imagination run wild and delivers to our gaze the beginnings of an interpretation, by carefully reworking his photographs, through what appear to be scribbles, and in fact reveal themselves to be the mark of an expression rich in meaning.
In this series of works, he subtly sends us a message: we see nothing of what is shown to us. His images are constructed and intended to question our gaze, to accompany it to see what we had not retained.
He grants himself great freedom, seeming to refuse the figurative that freezes and mortifies reality. He gives his works a second wind, he animates them with movements. He frees himself from the habits of photography and allows himself to affix traces, which he achieves thanks to a light beam.
Because as he likes to say: “to photograph” is to write or draw with light.
Antoine Poupel takes us into his unique world, where the gaze is unbridled, freed from habits. The imagination is in control, his own… he takes ours with him.
Anne-Marie Sudry, Psychoanalyst
The exhibition will feature unique prints; fourteen monotype photographs and a dozen Polaroids taken in 1985.
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Galerie &co119 is pleased to present the exhibition Roman Corps by Antoine Poupel.
Antoine Poupel, artist-photographer, likes to transgress his images, to re-examine the reality, to subvert the habits of the viewers gaze.
In doing so, he reimagines an image and creates a platform for reinterpretation, carefully working his photographs, by what seems to be scribbles, and in which reveals an expression rich of meaning.
In this series of works he subtly proposes a message: ones sees nothing of what is shown to us. His images are manipulated and constructed to interrogate our preconceptions, to accompany him to see what we have previously missed. He grants himself great freedom, seeming to reject the figurative which freezes and mortifies reality. The photographs are given a second breath, animated with movement.
Freed from the conventions of photography, he allows himself to apply traces; created by a light beam. For as he likes to say: “To photograph is to write or draw with light.”
Antoine Poupel pulls us into his unique universe, one where the observation is unbound, free from preconception. The imagination is liberated to journey where it is lead, he controls the image and draws us into his vision.
Anne-Marie Sudry, Psychoanalyst
The exhibition with present a selection of unique photographs; including fourteen photo monotytypes and a dozen polaroids taken in 1985.