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Stéphane CouturierSète – Melting Point – Photo #08 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour, Art2018
2018
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Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #08, 2018
C-print in Artist's frame
Image 125 x 166.7 cm (49 1/4 x 65 5/8 in.)
Sheet 135 x 176.7 cm (53 1/8 x 69 5/8 in.)
Frame 142 x 183.7 x 5 cm (55 7/8 x 72 3/8 x 2 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 1/5
Framed print
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.
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In his latest series, which was created over a period of more than three years, Stéphane Couturier explores, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the ‘Climat de France’ housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algiers. Built in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon, the ambitious project is now the centre of the Bab-El-Oued district. Today the housing project is a city within a city, forgotten by politicians and avoided by the police. While his previous work had been focused mainly on the formal aspects of modern architecture, his newest pieces also explore the people, who bring life to these architectures, designed at the drawing board, and who thereby adapt these ideal structures to their own ideas and needs. The buildings’ strict forms and regular structures encounter the accidental occurrences of everyday life. Stéphane Couturier’s photos and videos derive their force and vivacity precisely from this tension: from the collision of the constructed ideal with lived reality. In addition to their aesthetic quality, Stéphane Couturier’s works from Algiers acquire an almost topical relevance. The works subtly address the consequences of colonialism in North Africa, which are still felt today, and thus also probe one of the roots of current global political and social developments, especially in this region.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Large Format, Building, Minimal Art
- Creator:Stéphane Couturier (1957)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 49.22 in (125 cm)Width: 65.63 in (166.7 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zurich, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128017575452
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