Galerie
Sollertis
Jean-Marc
Bustamante, S.I.M. Untitled, 67 x 86 cm, colour
photograph,unique, 1997
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Jean-Marc
Bustamante
27 September to 9 November 2002
Galerie Sollertis
12 rue des régans F 31 000 Toulouse
tel +33 ( 0)5 61 55 43 32
fax +33 (0)5 61 25 34 13
sollertis@sollertis.com
http://www.sollertis.com
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Jean-Marc Bustamante
Exhibition from 27 September to 9 November 2002
Jean-Marc Bustamante will represent France at the 50th Venice Biennale
in
2003.
He is one of those rare French artists who enjoy international renown,
and
his work has been shown in such prestigious institutions as the Jeu de
Paume Gallery in Paris, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Kassel
Documenta (Documenta VIII, IX and X), as well as in such
"ground-breaking"
venues as the Berne Kunsthalle, the Hans Lange Museum in Krefeld, and
Eindhoven's Van Abbe Museum.
He was born in Toulouse in 1952, to a South American father and an
English
mother, and developed an interest in photography at a very early age--in
1975 he was already working as American photographer and film-maker
William Klein's assistant.
Between 1977 and 1982, he took a whole series of photos in the Barcelona
region (Tableaux/Pictures), "a region drastically altered by
tourism, with
its shifting urban outskirts, and its disfigured seashores". His goal
was
"to find a territory in motion, where nature, culture and architecture
interrelate".
The year 1982 saw his first solo show at the Baudoin Lebon gallery in
Paris. In 1983, he met the sculptor Bernard Bazile, and the two artists
joined forces under the name BAZILEBUSTAMANTE, working together for the
next three years. This association gave him a chance to produce
three-dimensional works, and extend his praxis to media other than
photography.
Jean-Marc Bustamante has produced a work especially for Le Printemps de
Septembre [Spring September] (commissioned by the Centre national des
arts
plastiques [CNAP], Paris), which will be on view in the Réfectoire des
Jacobins, in Toulouse.
In tandem with this event, the Sollertis gallery will be showing a
selection of works from the series Something is Missing, which
the artist
embarked upon in 1995. Something is Missing is a "kind of
anti-logbook",
consisting of travel photos taken in the United States, Argentina and
Spain.
"Something is Missing, which should be regarded as one and the
same work
being gradually constructed before our eyes, comes across as isolated
blocks which can be made up of up to twelve photographs. These blocks do
not narrate any story, nor do they prompt any specific kind of reading.
They are archipelagos--or, alternatively, islands, when they are made up
of just a single image" (Jean-Pierre Criqui in Jean-Marc Bustamante,
oeuvres photographiques 1978-1999, CNP).
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