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25/3/2014

Six exhibitions

Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris

Bruno Mouron & Pascal Rostain
Famous

Celebrities have no secrets for Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain, who have been photographing the private worlds of major stars for over twenty years. Their pictures have been published in the world’s press, but less commonly for these types of images, which are often taken without the subject’s knowledge, they are also exhibited in major institutions.

The work of Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain involves sociology just as much as the world of the paparazzi. It responds to our curiosity and unsettles us, but it also reflects an artistic process and explores our social behavior.The Maison Européenne de la Photographie, which organised an exhibition of their work in 2007, presents two of their series: Famous and Autopsie.

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Luciano Castelli
Self-portraits

Luciano Castelli is an artist who expresses himself through a variety of media: painting, photography, video, sculpture and music.In the 1970s he began to pose himself, and his self-portraits reveal a multi- facetted personality assuming different roles: death, an animal, an androgynous or mythical creature.

The exhibition presents a broad selection of self-portraits made between 1973 and 1986, as well as a monumental video/sculpture. It also reveals for the first time the correspondence between Luciano Castelli and Pierre Molinier after they met in 1974, and shows a hitherto unseen series of portraits of the artist made by Molinier.

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Fouad Elkoury
Le plus beau jour

Photographer and video maker Fouad Elkoury lives in Paris and Beirut. In the 1980s he covered the civil war in Lebanon and the Near East. His work approaches the cityscape as a dimension of intimacy and addresses socio-political questions in times of war.

His work has been widely exhibited, most notably at the Palais de Tokyo, at the Venice Biennale, and at the Beirut Art Center. This installation comprised of several video slide shows is his second exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. As he explains, “It all began with a poem by Etel Adnan, To be in a time of war, which I was eager to illustrate. As time went by, and as I associated the images with one another, the project turned into a multi-screen piece, a sort of three-act play that tells several stories at once”.

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Jean-Michel Fauquet
L’oeil du signe

Jean-Michel Fauquet’s work involves drawing, painting and sculpture, ultimately resulting in photographs reminiscent of engravings.

Most of the work takes place in a studio, where the subject, made of low-grade materials, is a pretext that conjures up a narrative in the mind of the viewer, who elaborates a story using his own memory and imagination. Fauquet’s way of approaching light and shapes is very personal. His printing methods and his use of special paper and unusual media also make him something of an alchemist. His works have been widely exhibited in France and abroad, in particular at the Rencontres photographiques d’Arles in 2013. The show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie features about 80 works.

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Barbara Luisi
Œuvres Récentes

Barbara Luisi was born in Munich and lives and works in New York and Camogli in Italy. As the philosopher Françoise Gaillard writes, “Barbara Luisi takes up the challenge that the sea throws down to painting. But hers is not the diurnal, lambent sea that allowed Monet, Renoir, Manet and many others to play with shades of blue, grey and green; it is not the tamed sea that offers a tempting venue for bathing — a fashion that was not slow to catch on during that period. Hers is a nocturnal, shadowy, inky sea, now black, now blue — a blue so dark it borders on blackness. And only what the poet so aptly dubbed ‘the dark light that falls from the stars’ punctures this dark surface with its cold light”.

The exhibition presents two series making up a total of fifteen recent works by Barbara Luisi: her seascapes from the Dreamland series (until 4 May), and her nude photographs, from the series entitled Fragility.

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Martin Parr
Paris

For thirty-five years Martin Parr has been taking photographs of scenes of ordinary life that are able to take us by surprise, capturing the inherent vulnerability we all share. He now invites us to follow him around Paris. The Maison Européenne de la Photographie gave him carte blanche for this series, and for two years he has focused on Parisians, photographing the Champs-Élysées, tourists, the 14 July celebrations, fashion shows, the Le Bourget air show, Paris Plage, museums, art fairs, the annual agricultural show, and so on.

About sixty photographs, some new, some less recent, illustrate Martin Parr’s Paris: the French capital seen through the lens of a quintessentially English photographer.

Image: Luciano Castelli, 1974 © Pierre Molinier

Carole Brianchon
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01 44 78 75 01
cbrianchon@mep-fr.org

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