GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Press Release Jacques Pugin The

Press Release
Exhibition:
02.10 – 03.14.2015
Opening Reception:
Tuesday February 10th 2015, from 6pm to 9pm, the artist will be present
Jacques Pugin
The Knights of the Devil and Sacred Site
The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present two series by photographer Jacques
Pugin: The Knights of the Devil and Sacred Site. The exhibition features two parts, two
views on the same subject, Africa: first a black and white work on the ruins of war and
then luminous color photographs of traces from an ancient but lively culture.
The Knights of the Devil
How does one photograph war? Certainly not by repeating pictures of corpses, answers
the author who decided to re-appropriate images and subject satellite views of burnt
villages in Darfur –with at least 300,000 dead between 2003 and 2006– to another
treatment, posing the question in a radical fashion. Freed of their colours and converted
into black and white negative, the Google Earth captures become graphics. We will not
find information, but we will, indisputably, have the form. (...)The information could not
be derived from the actual image if it were produced in the photographic tradition or by
the sophistication of recent technologies. Satellites –which sweep everything, monitor
everything– supply us with shapes. Shapes to be deciphered. In this case, denoting
tragedy.
Christian Caujolle, published on The Eye of Photography
Sacred Site
As a counterpoint to the tragedy in Darfur, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff also exhibits
another series: Sacred Site. The series refers to the name that Australian aborigines
give to their holy places by surrounding them with enclosures to protect them. The
artist travels around the world to photograph theses places, browsing deserted and
depopulated areas and natural sites. He photographs traces that indicate the presence
of man in the landscape. His photographs suggest a reflection on time, space and the
complex relationship between mankind and nature. This series includes many enclosures,
buildings, or traces of nomadic dwellings characterized by their circular shape: Jacques
Pugin photographs these places like sculptures made with the surrounding elements,
by men.
Publication:
The Knights of the Devil
Photographs by Jacques Pugin, introduction by Christian Caujolle
30 x 30 cm, 64 pages, 2014
Limited edition of 300 books, including 20 copies, signed and numbered by the artist,
of collector’s editions featuring an original print.
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
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For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by email at [email protected]
or by phone at +33 9 51 51 24 50
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Press images
Jacques Pugin, #03, from the series The Knights of the Devil, 2008-2013
Ultrachrome pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 36,5 x 65,5 cm, edition of 11
Jacques Pugin, #79, from the series The Knights of the Devil, 2008-2013
Ultrachrome pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 36,5 x 66,5 cm, edition of 11
The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to
three months after the end date of the exhibition.
Obligatory mention: © Jacques Pugin, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
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Press images
Jacques Pugin, #299 Tchad, Ennedi, 2013, 16,48.0336N 21,59.9578E, from the series Sacred Site
Ultrachrome pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 37 x 56,5 cm, edition of 11
Jacques Pugin, #298 Tchad, Ennedi, 2013, 16,48.0455N 21,59.9627E, from the series Sacred Site
Ultrachrome pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 37 x 56,5 cm, edition of 11
The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to
three months after the end date of the exhibition.
Obligatory mention: © Jacques Pugin, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
www.ewgalerie.com
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Biography
Artist
Jacques Pugin
Born in 1954, Jacques Pugin became a photographer in 1972, against his father’s
advice, and moved to Zurich. In 1977, he had his first exhibition at Galerie 38, a
pioneer gallery dedicated to photography in Switzerland, run by Suzanne Abelin. He
opened his own studio in Geneva in 1978, traveled to Greece and won a federal grant
for Applied Arts. For his series Graffiti greffés, he draws in his photographs, using
the Light painting technique of which he was one of the forerunners. This series was
soon exposed worldwide. He received the Swiss Federal Grant for Fine Arts three years
in a row. Visual artist, Jacques Pugin practices an experimental photography where
his research on forms mingles with a reflection on time, space and on the complex
relationship of man with nature. While photographing the traces of light, using collage,
video, manipulating the colors, he proposes a new definition of Photography and his
subjects. He is also an early user of the possibilities offered by the digital tools which
allow him to intervene directly on the image. Since 2000, he travels around the world
for his Sacred Site series, supported by a grant from the Leenaards Fundation and
returns to Switzerland to photograph and to give us a striking vision of the mountains in
his series La Montagne s’ombre. His work is regularly published and has been exhibited
many times, especially at the Musée de l’Elysée in 1987 and 2009 and at the Center
for Photography in Geneva, which he co-founded. His latest series, The Knights of the
Devil (started in 2008) represents a change of approach. Denouncing the massacres
of the civil war in Darfur, in a place very difficult to access for journalists, Jacques
Pugin decided to use satellite photographs from Google Earth as a starting point for
his images. The remaining ashes of the villages, looted and burned by the Janjaweed
(“Knights of the Devil”), leave their macabre marks on the landscape, Jacques Pugin,
by removing the colors and inverting the images, gives them a surreal appearance and
invents a new political and conceptual way of showing the war.
Solo exhibitions
2014
La montagne s’ombre, AD Galerie, Nyon, Switzerland
2010
Galerie Kowasa, Barcelona, Spain
2009
La montagne s’ombre, Galerie Krisal, Carouge Geneva, Switzerland
D’ombre et de lumière, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006
La montagne s’ombre, Galerie Krisal, Carouge Geneva, Switzerland
2005
Sacred Site, In Store, Bruxelles, Belgium
2004
La montagne bleue and Sacred Site, Galerie Chambre Claire, Annecy, France
2002
La montagne bleue, Galerie Osmoz, Bulle, Switzerland
Les déserts, Galerie Krisal, Carouge Geneva, Switzerland
2000
La montagne bleue, Photoforum PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
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mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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1999
Traversée du désir, Galerie Fischlin, Nyon, Switzerland
1995
Galerie Fischlin, Geneva, Switzerland
1993
Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland
1990-1991
Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
1990
Galeria Spectrum (with Centre de la photographie, Geneva), Saragossa, Spain
1988
Palais des Congrès et de la Culture, during the festival de l’image de la ville du Mans,
Le Mans
1987
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1984
Maison de la Culture de Rennes, Rennes, France
Galerie Espace UN, Geneva, Switzerland
1983
Galerie Canon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Fotografia Oltre, Chiasso, Switzerland
Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris
1982
Galerie Suzanne Kupfer, Bienne, Switzerland
Galerie Canon, Geneva, Switzerland
1981
Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris
1980
Galerie Edwind Engelberts, Geneva, Switzerland
1979
Galerie Jean-Jacques Hofstetter, Fribourg, Switzerland
1977
Galerie des Pas Perdus, Bulle, Switzerland
Galerie 38, Zurich, Switzerland
Group exhibitions
(selection)
2014
Getxophoto, Struggles, Curator Christian Caujolle, Getxo Bilbao, Spain
2011
Europ’ART Genève avec la Galerie Krisal, Geneva, Switzerland
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
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mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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2009
Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, MAM, Fotografias da colecao M+M Auer, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
2007
Art Paris, Grand Palais, with Galerie Emotion Lydie Trigano, Paris
2006
Sala municipal de exposiciones de San Benito, Una pasion suiza Colecccion M. + M.
Auer, San Benito, Spain
2005
Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Des goûts et des couleurs…, Galerie Nicole et Léon Herschtritt, Paris
2004
Paris Photo, with Galerie Krisal, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Art Paris, with Galerie Emotion, Paris
2003
Paris Photo, with Galerie Krisal, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2001
Le chant de la machine, Galerie Voutat, Crêtes/Vandoeuvres, Geneva, Switzerland
Terre Ciel Mer, Biennale de photographie, Montpellier, France
2000
Le Nu Photographié, Galerie d’art du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-enProvence, France
1999
Histoires d’oeufs, Paris Photo & Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris
1997
Au Cervin qui fume, Forum de Meyrin, Switzerland
1993
Musée Rath, Escale 3, Geneva, Switzerland
1990
Galleria SPSAS, palazzo Morettini Locarno, Switzerland
1988
Musée de l’Elysée, La collection Polaroid, Lausanne, Switzerland
1987
Genève : 9 photographes, Galeria ZPAF, Cracovie et Stara Galeria, Warsaw, Poland
Sélection III» from Polaroid Collection, The National Museum for Photography,
Bradford, Great-Britain
1986
Sélection III, curated by Dr. Erika Billeter from Lausanne, Köln, Germany
New black and white West-European photography, Museum of Vilnius, Lituania
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
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1985
Selections II from Polaroid, 4th Triennale Internationale de la Photographie, curated
by Alain Sayag from the Centre Georges Pompidou inParis, Fribourg, Switzerland
1984
New Black & White West European Photography, The L.A. Center of Photography
Research, Los Angeles, USA
La Couleur Créative, Mois de la Photo, Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris
Young Swiss Photographers, Osaka Prefectural Art Center, Tokyo Institute of
Polytechnics Shadai Gallery, Kawtohu Department Store in Morioka, Umeya
Department Store à Odawara, Kanagama Prefectural Gallery in Hokohama, Japan
Les Gens de l’Ephémère, Centre Culturel Français, Beer Sheva, Israel
1983
Les Gens de l’Ephémère, Tel Aviv and Haïfa Museums, Israel
New Black & White West European Photography, Center for Photography, Houston,
USA
Les Gens de l’Ephémère, Les Rencontres Internationales de la photographie, Galerie
Arena, Arles
1982
Photographie et Narration, Centre culturel de l’Yonne, with Daniel Boudinnet, Guy
Le Querrec, Ange Manganelli, Jacques Pugin and David Seidner, Auxerre, France
Photographes contemporains en Europe, Les Rencontres Internationales de la
photographie, Arles, France
1981
Jeunes Photographes Suisses, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Section des Jeunes Photographes, Rencontre internationale de la photographie, Arles
1980
Section des Jeunes Photographes, Rencontre internationale de la photographie, Arles
1979
Galerie Canon, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Publications
2014
Les cavaliers du Diable
La montagne s’ombre
2006
paysages.ch, 36 photographs by Jacques Pugin, boxed book, with a text by Daniel
Girardin, curator of the Musée de L’Elysée à Lausanne
1998
La montagne bleue, Collection Photoarchives 10, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel
1990
Jacques Pugin, exhibition catalog, SPSAS Locarno
Trace dans le monde physique, exhibition catalog, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
1983
Exhibition catalog, Galerie Fotografia Oltre
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
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1982
Espace-Ligne, exhibition catalog, Canon Gallery, Geneva
1980
Graffiti greffés I, portfolio, E. Engelberts
Graffiti greffés II, portfolio, E. Engelberts
1979
Graffiti greffés, exhibition catalog, Galerie E. Engelberts, Geneva
Awards and grants
Bourse de la Fondation Leenaards, Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Grant of Fine arts, Switzerland
Bourse de la Ville de Genève «Berthoud», Switzerland
Swiss Federal Grant of Fine arts, Switzerland
Bourse de la Ville de Genève «Lissignol-Chevalier», Switzerland
Swiss Federal Grant of Fine arts, Switzerland
Bourse fédérale des Arts Appliqués, Switzerland
Collections
Bernard Arnault Collection, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondation de la Photographie, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Geneva (FMAC), Switzerland
Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva, (FCAC), Switzerland
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, USA
Festival international des Rencontres d’Arles Collection, France
Goro International Press, Tokyo, Japan
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland
M+M Auer Collection, Hermance, Switzerland
André L’Huillier, Geneva, Switzerland
Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
Banque du Gothard, Lugano, Switzerland
Banque Julius Baer, Switzerland
Chopard Collection, Switzerland
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