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TODD HIDO « La Lumière Sombre » La Carte Blanche D’Olympus Aux Rencontres D’Arles Carte blanche 2018 Palais de Luppé 2 juillet - 26 août Jeudi 5 juillet Before de 18h à 20h Visite de l’exposition avec l’artiste TODD HIDO « La lumière sombre » La carte Blanche d’Olympus aux Rencontres d’Arles Olympus est depuis 11 ans partenaire majeur des Rencontres d’Arles. Ce partenariat se construit chaque année en complicité avec les Rencontres d’Arles et prend la forme d’expositions, de rendez-vous et de rencontres avec des photographes et acteurs de la photographie. A ce titre, chaque année Olympus propose à un photographe de réaliser un travail en carte blanche avec l’un de ses derniers appareils. C’est ainsi qu’après Michael Ackerman et Alex Majoli, Todd Hido a répondu avec plaisir à cette proposition pour 2018. La Galerie Particulière est heureuse de vous annoncer que la Carte blanche Olympus 2018 a été confiée au photographe américain Todd Hido qui a créé spécialement de nouvelles oeuvres avec le dernier boîtier de la gamme Olympus. Elles seront présentées au Palais de Luppé lors des Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles. Principalement connu pour ses images cinématographiques de pavillons de banlieue la nuit, ses paysages en bordure de route et ses portraits chargés d’émotion, Hido décrit son approche de la photographie comme “un vacillement entre l’amour du documentaire et le souhait d’exprimer des sentiments à travers les photos”. En vingt-cinq ans, Hido a atteint une renommée internationale pour ses images de lieux et de sujets qui, lorsqu’ils sont entremêlés, sondent – tout en jouant avec elles – ces notions intrinsèquement humaines que sont le manque, la perte, la mémoire et la narration. Cette nouvelle série réinterprète le portrait photographique avec les techniques d’éclairage propres à la peinture classique européenne ; Hido y explore une déclinaison de lumière nordique sans ombre ainsi qu’un clair-obscur plus ciselé. “Il y a dix ans, j’ai visité le sud de la France. Durant mon séjour, j’ai compris que les volets étaient pensés pour plonger une pièce dans l’obscurité complète, afin de limiter la chaleur estivale et de faciliter les siestes. Je viens du Midwest, aux États-Unis, et c’était nouveau pour moi, se souvient Hido. La première fois que j’ai vu une silhouette inondée de lumière dans un océan de noirceur, j’ai pensé aux grands maîtres, et je me suis dit qu’ils avaient peut-être été inspirés par des conditions similaires.” Les recherches de Hido autour de cette luminosité ont abouti des années plus tard, lorsqu’il a monté son studio. “Je l’ai conçu comme un espace sombre pouvant être ouvert à des sources de lumière rigoureusement contrôlées. Quand j’ai commencé à prendre ces photos, j’ai compris qu’elles traitaient de la simplicité – la lumière sur la peau, le tissu, la beauté à l’état pur de cet outil silencieux, et pourtant si profond.” Commissaire de l’exposition : Fannie Escoulen Exposition produite par Olympus La Galerie Particulière is delighted to announce that the «Carte blanche» Olympus 2018 has been awarded to American photographer Todd Hido. A new body of work has been especially created with the very latest Olympus camera. The artwoks will be presented at Palais de Luppé at the occasion of Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. Known primarily for his cinematic night shots of suburban houses, roadside landscapes, and emotionally charged portraits, Hido describes his approach to photography as “vacillating between a love of documentary and a desire to express myself emotionally with images”. Over the course of twenty-five years Hido has gained international recognition for his photographs of places and subjects that when weaved together explore and play with innate human ideas of longing, loss, narrative, and memory. This latest series reinterprets his photographic portraits in the lighting style of European classical paintings. Exploring a range of shadow-less Northern light and a more chiseled chiaroscuro method. «Ten years ago, I visited the South of France. It was during my stay there that I realized in order to mitigate the summer heat and aid with afternoon naps, that the shutters were designed to completely black out a room. Coming from the Midwest of the United States, I had never seen this before,” recalls Hido. “The first time I opened the shutters and saw a person illuminated in a field of darkness reminiscent of that classical painterly way, it struck me that these may have been the conditions for which earlier European painters were inspired.” Much of Hido’s search to create his own variation of this manifested years later when he began to build his own studio. “I designed it as a dark space that could be opened up to carefully controlled sources of natural light. When first I made these pictures, I realized they were about the simplicity of light on skin and fabric and the sheer beauty of that quiet but profound tool.” Curator : Fannie Escoulen Exhibition produced by Olympus Signature du catalogue par Todd Hido jeudi 05 juillet à partir de 18h Voici la première monographie rétrospective de l’un des photographes américains les plus admirés et influents de sa génération : Todd Hido. Séquencées chronologiquement, les photographies réunies ici furent réalisées au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, révélant la profondeur et l’étendue de son œuvre émi- nemment cinématographique, aux images aussi magnétiques qu’étranges. Un monde fait de paysages brouillés et routes désolées, de pavillons de banlieue traqués dans les faisceaux blafards des lampadaires, de femmes saisies par la peur ou le désir. De jour, les pièces sont des espaces sombres et claquemurés, de nuit, les maisons deviennent des chambres incandescentes. Dans sa préface, l’essayiste David Campany note que « si ces photographies semblent narratives, c’est parce qu’elles suggèrent des histoires non racontées et de possibles scénarios. Elles donnent une sensation de vacuité de ce monde mi-factuel, mi-fictionnel. Malgré la débauche des couleurs, malgré l’épaisseur des atmosphères, Hido manifeste l’économie d’un artiste minimal. » Todd Hido, Intimate Distance Editions Textuel 24,5 x 29 cm, Relié, 272 pages 250 photographies, 69 euros Todd Hido Born 1968, Kent, OH EDUCATION 1996 - M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1991-1992 - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1991 - B.F.A., Tufts University, Medford, MA - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA SOLO EXHIBITIONS - selection 2018 - Carte Blanche Olympus, Arles, France - In the Vicinity of Narrative, MBAL, Le Locle, switzerland - Twelve Portraits, La Galerie Particulière, Bruxelles 2016 - La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France - Casemore/Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, California 2015 - Solo booth, PhotoLondon, London, La Galerie Particuliere, Paris, France - Todd Hido : Selection from a Survey: Khyrstyna’s World, Alex Daniels Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Todd Hido : Selections from a Survey, Casemore/Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, California - Drive By Shooting, Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany 2014 - Solo booth, Paris Photo, La Galerie Particuliere, Paris, France - Songs from the Heart, Museum of the Image, Breda, The Netherlands - Todd Hido – Survey, Kaune, Posnik, Spohr, Cologne, Germany - Photobook Study: Excerpts from Silver Meadows, The PhotoBook Museum, Cologne, Germany - Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows, The Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York 2013 - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Transformer Station, The Bidwell Foundation, Cleveland - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Kaune, Posnik, Spohr, Cologne, Germany - Todd Hido, Post, Shibuya, Tokyo 2012 - I Drive, La Galerie Particulière, Paris - I Drive, Silencio - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California 2011 - Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Fragmented Narratives, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY 2010 - Househunting / Nudes, Kaune Sudendorf, Cologne, Germany GROUP EXHIBITIONS - selection 2016 - Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California - The New Portrait, Stieglitz19, Antwerp, Belgium 2015 - The Open Road: Photographs and the American Road Trip,” Aperture, traveling exhibition 6/15-1/19 - Aperture: Photographs, Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York, NY - The Perfect Measure, Micamera, Milan, Italy 2014 - Hindsight, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark - Home Economics, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY - The Armory Show, New York, NY 2013 - And Now It’s Dark,: American Night Photography, University of Nottingham - Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY - Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC - The Beauty of Darkness, Reflex Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Unknown: Pictures of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH - Hindsight, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark - Home Economics, Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY - The Armory Show, New York, NY - Space, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UtT 2012 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, La Galerie Particulière, Paris - America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island - Balls Deep, 31 Rausch Gallery, San Francisco, CA - About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA 2011 - Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV - Idyll,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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