Cedric Guilleminot
dal 2/11/2011 al 23/12/2011
Segnalato da
2/11/2011
Cedric Guilleminot
JAS Gallery, Paris
With "Ice Dreams", the artist bears witness to nature in both its greatest beauty and greatest fragility, combining a series of photographs taken in Iceland on several trips in 2010 and 2011.
Cédric Guilleminot
«Ice Dreams»
One year after opening, following an
exhibition of the iconoclastic
canvasses of Slovak painter Martin
Gerboc, JAS Gallery is dedicating
both of its levels to Cédric
Guilleminot's photographs.
Alec and
Jessy Sellem will offer a must-see
stop in the first edition of the Saint-
Germain-des-Prés Photo Festival (4-
30 November) with this seasonal
exhibition entitled "Ice Dreams",
running from 3 November to 24
December 2011.
Just over a year ago, 36-year-old Franco-American Cédric Guilleminot decided to trade the world of finance for
the open spaces he explores with his 35 mm full-frame Nikon. "Ice Dreams", his first gallery exhibition, combines
a series of photographs taken in Iceland on several trips in 2010 and 2011.
The glacial lake Jökulsárlón lies in the south of Iceland at the foot of a majestic glacier: Breidamerkurjökull. Eerily
shaped icebergs break away from the glacier and pile up in the lagoon before they pass through the channel that
ultimately carries them out to sea. At a nearby beach of volcanic sand, Cédric Guilleminot discovered bits and
pieces of icebergs washed up by the tide, contemplating the sea one last time before it takes them back. Having
cut his teeth on the techniques of landscape and portrait photography, and wielding his great mastery of light,
Cédric Guilleminot immortalizes these totems sculpted by the elements.
They appear to be frozen individually in
their final hours of glory, crystalline, blue or green depending on the compression of the ice, sometimes striped
with black ash in remembrance of volcanic eruptions. With "Ice Dreams", Cédric Guilleminot bears witness to
nature in both its greatest beauty and greatest fragility.
Image: Cédric Guilleminot, Dream of the blue Elephant, Iceland 2010, courtesy Jas Gallery
Opening: november 3, 7pm
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17 rue des Saints pères - Paris
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