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4/3/2004

Patrick Tosani

Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg

ZONES

From march 6th to April 30th 2004, the gallery Erna Hécey presents the French artist Patrick Tosani's new photograph series in a one-man-show Zones.

The "glasses of milk" series (Zones 2001) proposes a reflection on the way full and empty co-exist inside a definite space. The inversion of gravity underlines this division line, this separating limit.
The eye, caught by material in suspension, may not replace this reverse gravity into the right sense. This enigma purpose is to question two parts or two masses separated by a virtual line.

Thus, the intention can be abstract revealing a much larger perception about conflict, repartition, territory, balance, limit or about what's empty, what's full, separation, independence, equality.
These terms may be taken in relationship with the individual, the social body, a geographic or political entity as it was the case when this work was integrated in a reflection about the tensions in the Middle East.

Patrick Tosani lives and works in Paris. Born in 1954 in Boissy-l'Aillerie (France), he studies architecture in the 70's and becomes a photographer at the beginning of the 80's. His artwork focuses on questioning photography as a medium and its possibilities.
The "ice cubes" series (1982-83) or the "rains" series (1986) are functioning as allegories of the time cut produced by photography. The artist is calling this "the surfacing of reality " and thinks his work in relationship with the physical confrontation with the viewer. With the appearance of the body in his recent works as in the series "nails" (1990), "bodies" and "clothes" (1996-97) which were shown at the gallery, he shows that "vision will always be struck by the ineluctable volume of human bodies" (G. Didi-Huberman).

The work by Patrick Tosani has already been shown in several one-man-shows as for instance at the ICA in London in 1987, at MAC of Rochechouart in 1988, at Magasin in Grenoble in 1991, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992, the ARC du Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1993 and the Centre National de la Photographie de Paris in 1998Š He has also participated in a large number of group shows or photography shows.

PREVIEW, FRIDAY 5 MARCH, 6 ­ 9PM

opening hours : Monday - Friday 2 - 7pm, Saturday 11 - 1pm / 2 - 6pm

galerie erna hécey
25 bv du prince henri
L-1724 luxembourg
t: +352 24 11 74
f: +352 24 15 89

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