Happy are those who do not yet know the work of Éric Poitevin, photographer of the hypersensitive gaze, of the right distance and of purity.
Born on May 5, 1961 in Longuyon (Meurthe-et-Moselle) and living in Mangiennes (Meuse), this walker slowly comes to the image that he strips of everything superfluous, like a painter who composes the essential by removing the decor.
Sylvie Ramond, Director General of the Center of Art Museums in Lyon and its Museum of Fine Arts, had the great idea of inviting this artist to draw material from his collections.
The result is sober and moving, enigmatic and crystal clear.
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Éric Poitevin visited the reserves and the graphic art cabinet.
He looked at the masters, Lucas Cranach, Francisco de Zurbaran, Frans Snyders or Odilon Redon, photographing them differently, like his contemporaries, or confronting them with his series of deceptive calm in the same great contemplative silence.
Metaphysics as hell
There is humor in this photographer from the north of Lorraine...
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