Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

Patrick Beaulieu
for intérieur – braise 1

2012

About the Item

Patrick Beaulieu’s multi-disciplined practice creates finely tuned and subtle gestures that aim to re-focus our attention on the physical world that we see and experience. In conversation with a trilogy of on-the-road Odysseys that he will be completing in 2012 with Daniel Canty, Beaulieu brings together natural and manmade remnants from his personal expeditions, breaking down their perceived differences along the way. For intérieur (Deep Down), pays homage to things that once lived, bled, smoldered, and buzzed. Through flat images and installations, a host of natural histories occupy the gallery space in varying size, height, movement, and volume. Portable scanners capture high-resolution images of bloodstained goose feathers, each one given special attention in the center of the scan. These small particles of flight and migration – collected from the forest floor – leave plenty of questions about their former host body unanswered, but float between life and death as independent forms. Forty migratory geese wings, cast in aluminum, seem to quiver above hundreds of programmed LEDs positioned on the gallery floor. Like the bloody spots on the scanned images, the metal coating re-defines the feathers, presumably once supported by life and air. And still the glow of red light seems to whisper a path for continuation. Digital prints of glowing embers freeze the final moment before the scanner explodes from the intense heat of the dying coal. But the show’s smallest installation is perhaps its most powerful. A tiny, black and blue night fly buzzes in tight rotation, audibly hitting the gallery wall again and again during the course of its self-destructive orbit. As with Beaulieu’s Braises, a switch is flipped on, and life is gently pushed back into the process of burning out. The varying elements in Beaulieu’s work are lively, but running throughout you can feel a tension with the absence of life. The missing connections between these fragments and their original energy source are as notable as the images and objects themselves. Cast, scanned, and re-charged, For intérieur shimmers between burial and flight. With this in mind, Beaulieu delivers quiet, intense glimpses that tune in to the rhythmic pulse of life just as they acknowledge its limits, as well as our own. Representations and the tools that make them have their own boundaries. So do we. But by capturing these small, forgotten traces, Beaulieu asks us to reexamine our own vista, and perhaps open our eyes a bit wider.
  • Creator:
    Patrick Beaulieu (1974, Canadian)
  • Creation Year:
    2012
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 58 in (147.32 cm)Width: 42.5 in (107.95 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Montreal, CA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU476235572

More From This Seller

View All
Slips Away Quietly
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper

for intérieur – braise 3
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s multi-disciplined practice creates finely tuned and subtle gestures that aim to re-focus our attention on the physical world that we see and experience. In convers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

for intérieur – braise 2
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s multi-disciplined practice creates finely tuned and subtle gestures that aim to re-focus our attention on the physical world that we see and experience. In convers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

for intérieur – braise 4
By Patrick Beaulieu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu’s multi-disciplined practice creates finely tuned and subtle gestures that aim to re-focus our attention on the physical world that we see and experience. In convers...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

You Should Have Seen What I’ve Seen
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

Elevation 2
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the digital age, we collectively photograph everything all of the time. But how much does anyone remember from a scene or a moment when looking at a digital photo? Someone could g...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

You May Also Like

Casper III - B&W Limited Edition Horse Portrait 2019
By Juan Lamarca
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Casper III, 2019 by Juan Lamarca Fine art archival cotton paper Image size: 40 x 30 inches Edition 2 of 10 plus 2 AP Unframed Juan Lamarca's Horse Series, is an abstract collection ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper

Deep Mirroring Forest 015 by Bernhard Lang - Landscape photography, trees, green
By Bernhard Lang
Located in Paris, FR
Deep Mirroring Forest 015 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 5 dimens...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

Deep Mirroring Forest 007 by Bernhard Lang - Landscape photography, trees, snowy
By Bernhard Lang
Located in Paris, FR
Deep Mirroring Forest 007 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 5 dimens...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD14558) - large abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction. She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms. AD14558 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence) 40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm edition of 8 + 2AP 60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm edition of 8 + 2AP limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate: artist signature labels are 8x10 in size signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label is then placed centered on verso if the mounted print __________________ About the artist Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art. For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US. Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles. __________________ Solo Exhibitions 2024 Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY 2023 Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Two-Thirds
By Jason Chen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece is an original artwork by Jason Chen titled "Two-Thirds". It is made of archival pigment prints from the artist's photography that he cuts and weaves together by hand. The piece measures 16”h x 12”w and ships framed in the pictured 19”h x 15”w frame. In 2012, Jason Chen shifted his long-running focus on dry plate tintypes to a new process: photo weaving. Chen began using two separate images of the same person, then wove them together in a process exploring time, movement, process, and mutation. He has exhibited works in the series one by one over the years, but in Fragments, his 2015 solo exhibition at Paradigm Gallery, a full collection of these works were on display together for the first time. Bio // Jason Chen is originally from Guangzhou, China. He received his BFA in Animation from the University of Arts in 2008. Jason is a Philadelphia-based photographer specializing in Fashion, Editorial, and Alternative Process Photography...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Tarmac Trouble
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is printed on archival pigment paper and encased in resin. It is placed in a white float frame. It is part of a limited edition of 8 and 2 artist proofs, all sizes included. It is available in two sizes, 120 x 120 cm (47 x 47 inches unframed), and 140 x 140 cm(55 x55 inches unframed). After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (20 years as a textile stylist and 10 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Resin, Epoxy Resin, Paper, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Pigment, ...

Recently Viewed

View All