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Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #14, 2018
C-print
Image 95 x 139.5 cm (37 3/8 x 54 7/8 in.)
Sheet 98 x 142.5 cm (38 5/8 x 56 1/8 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 1/5
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Sète
Far from reports as well as postcards, Stéphane Couturier's "hybridisations" reveal a port city that the old people of Sète, who were under the spell, thought they knew. Every year, Images singulières invites a renowned artist to take a look at the city. The styles of each of them - the Swede Anders Petersen (2008) or the Frenchman Richard Dumas (2014) - are immediately recognizable, but they all played the game of photographs taken on site. With the decision to choose Stéphane Couturier (born 1957) for this tenth event in documentary photography, the festival has completely changed its perspective. Unlike his predecessors, the photographer is a "plasticizer", i.e. he does not create reportages, but uses his images taken in the city as raw material, which he reworks and models on the computer. Sometimes to the point of unreality in the manner of a painter. Some of his "photographic paintings" on Sète are reminiscent of Fernand Léger's "Le Grand Tug" (1923) or the very graphic paintings of the Russian Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko from the late 1910s. However, it is impossible to equate his work with modern art. The artist does not make the city abstract. On the contrary, Stéphane Couturier transfigures it, reveals its soul, its past, its hidden face.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Large Format, Building
- Creator:Stéphane Couturier (1957)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 38.59 in (98 cm)Width: 56.11 in (142.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zurich, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128017227462
Stéphane Couturier
Stéphane Couturier is a French contemporary artist and photographer, born in 1957, in Neuilly Sur Seine, France. He currently lives and works in Paris. In 1994, he showed his first works in a series, called Urban Archaeology, viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately, avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 onwards, Stéphane was increasingly drawn to the suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape. On the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his Monuments series and on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments. These generic cities soon became his favorite subject. In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych, the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with Landscaping, with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction. With a new body of work, called Melting Point, Stéphane changed his visual approach in 2005. This series presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes, France. It also evolved with new subjects, like the Indian city of Chandigarh, built by Le Corbusier and the Brazilian city of Brasilia, built by Oscar Niemeyer, from 2007–10.
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