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Guillaume BRESSON Untitled - 2012
Oil on canvas
Signed, titl…
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Guillaume BRESSON Untitled - 2012
Oil on canvas
Signed, titl…
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €50,000
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Description
Guillaume BRESSON
Untitled - 2012
Oil on canvas
Signed, titled and dated on the back
116.5 x 170.5 cm
Oil on canvas; signed, titled and dated
45.9 x 67.1 in.
Provenance: Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Florence and Daniel Guerlain Collection, Les Mesnuls
Exhibitions : Paris, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Guillaume Bresson, 31 May to 21 July 2012
Bibliography: Guillaume Bresson, Peintures Paintings, Editions Flammarion, Paris, in partnership with Galerie Obadia, Paris-Bruxelles, 2024, reproduced on plate 26
"A montage of different temporalities, a symptom tearing apart the normal course of things."
Georges Didi Huberman, Devant le Temps: histoire de l'art et anachronisme des images, 2000
FR
This work by Guillaume Bresson was exhibited at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in 2012. The press release for the exhibition stated that in the paintings presented, urban and vegetal no-man's-lands awaited the unfolding of an action that would never take place... In this way, the paintings on show bring together formal harmonies and narrative anomalies, making the artist a pictorial heir to the literary and cinematic avant-gardes. The narrative attempts of the New Novel and the dramatic innovations of the Theatre of the Absurd are redeployed in a diegetic space inherited from the masters of the Italian Renaissance and French Classicism.
For most of his earlier paintings, he composed his images by having extras pose, and by assembling on computer the photographs he had made, preparatory studies that he considered an integral part of his work as a painter.
In these series, Bresson sometimes introduced quotations from old paintings into his montages, mixing them with contemporary elements, all treated in shades of grey that contributed to the derealisation of the scene. Imaginary landscapes combining the great heritage of classical painting with purely contemporary subjects.
The urban fringes so dear to the artist's heart are only hinted at by this car park entrance set in this idyllic landscape.
EN
This work by Guillaume Bresson was exhibited at the Nathalie Obadia Gallery in 2012. The exhibition press release noted that in the paintings on display, urban and vegetative no-man's-lands awaited the unfolding of an action that would never take place... The paintings on display thus bring together formal harmonies and narrative anomalies, making the artist a pictorial heir to the literary and cinematic avant-gardes. Narrative experiments from the Nouveau Roman; dramatic innovations from the theater of the absurd are reimagined within a diegetic space inherited from the masters of the Italian Renaissance and French Classicism.
For most of his earlier paintings, he composed his images by having models pose and then assembling the photos he had taken on a computer-preparatory studies he considers an integral part of his work as a painter.
In these series, Bresson sometimes incorporates references to old paintings into his montages, blending them with contemporary elements, all rendered in shades of gray that contribute to the scene's sense of unreality. Imaginary landscapes that blend purely contemporary subjects with this great legacy of classical painting.
The urban fringe areas so dear to the artist are merely suggested by this car park entrance set within this idyllic landscape.
Guillaume BRESSON
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