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JANOT - GUTHARC

JANOT – GUTHARC

Galerie Alain Gutharc, 7, rue Saint Claude - 75003 Paris Tel 00 33 (0)1) 47 00 32 10
12 th January -23 th February 2013

“Concrete / Buildings” is the fourth personal exhibition from Guillaume Janot at the Gallery Alain Gutharc. The exhibition at the gallery associates 2 ensembles of images : “Buildings”, series of photography realised since 2007 and “Concrete”, a series of photography realised in 2011.
This exhibition continues from and complements the previous exhibition “Just like heaven” at the gallery “voies off” in Arles and at the photography center in Lectoure in 2011 and 2012.
“Builgings” series as an inventory that the artist has compiled over the last several years in Pékin. It examines photography of residential “Buildings” constructed starting in the 1960’s, mass architecture based on soviet models, sometimes renovated but increasingly destined for destruction, in favor of vast more functional complexes intended for the new emerging middle class.
The series “Concrete” is comprised of photographs of concrete trees found in a park in Pékin. The tittle of the series in English is a play on words based on the double meaning of “concrete” refering to the material itself and the quality of tangibility. The subject, theese great molded truncks, themselves rooted in the surrounding vegetation, help to create through the mimetic effect, through the photographic process and the separation suggested between the subject and its representation, the trouble and the ambiguity facing the images.
These two series complete the work that the artist has realised since 2006 through a collection of photographs titled “Ecostream” (displayed notably during a personal exhibition at the Ricard Foundation in 2009) taken in amusement parks, themas parks, or botanical gardens at the four corners of the globe.
The theme is the fundamental paradox of the representation of reality through photography : where are the real and the false situated in a society no longer as spectacle but as permanent representation ? How can we examine through the immaterial images of photographs, the reality that they intend to display ? How can we simply show the most extra-ordinary reality ?

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