Press Release - Galerie Esther Woerdehoff

Press Release
Exxhibition :
15.06 – 18.07.2015
Opening Reception :
monday, June 15th, 2015, from 6 to 9 pm. The artist will be present
Eric Bourret : Timescape
Eric Bourret is an “artist walker”. His work has been influenced by English land artists
and landscape photographers.
Since the start of the 1990s, he has been travelling the world on foot, over every kind
of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as “experiences of walking,
experiences of the visible”.
Bourret’s expeditions can last for anything from a week to several months. But he
always applies the same protocol. He superimposes a number of views of each scene so
that the geological and human time scales merge.
With the multiple reiterations of the initial image, a part of it disintegrates on the
surface of the film before taking concrete form. The final result represents a summation
of different memories into a “temporal layering” that is vibrant, oscillatory, almost
animated.
The practice of “walking photography” can also take the measure of a landscape, and of
walking itself, in sequences of images that are more factual, with the insertion of dates
and places, distances and durations.
These images can be seen as aesthetic attestations, or as unusual, sensorial complexes
of rhythmic qualities. At the same time, they comprise a distinctive repository of
subjective experience. As Bourret himself says: “I’m made up of the landscapes I
traverse, and which also traverse me. I see photographic images as receptacles of form,
energy and sense.”
Publication :
Dans la gueule de l’espace, Photographies by Eric Bourret, text by Baldine Saint Girons
27 x 22 cm - 112 pages
Editions Arnaud Bizalion, 2015
For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by email at [email protected]
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Press Images
Eric Bourret, Mercantour, France, 2011, Timescape series
Archival pigment print, 110 x 140 cm, edition of 5
Eric Bourret, Lure, France, 2009, Timescape series
Archival pigment print, x cm, édition de
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: © Eric Bourret, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
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Biography
Artist
Éric Bourret
Eric Bourret was born in Paris in 1964. He discovered photography in 1979 during
an astronomy class in the Aveyron region (France). Already a walker as a young man
in the forests nearby Paris, he took on his first long hike in 1984 through the SainteVictoire and Sainte-Baume mountains. In 1994, he began exhibiting his photographs
at the Photographic Museum in Helsinki (Finland) and at the museum of Saint-Diédes-Vosges. Since then, his photographic projects, exhibitions and hiking trips lasting
sometimes several weeks have been following each other, always closely connected
- through the mountain, the plain or the city, from the pre-Islamic sites in the Middle
East to the Scottish coastline, from the mountains in Provence to Roissy-en-France
and to the Himalayas which he discovered in 2002 and where he returns now regularly.
As a photographer-walker, Eric Bourret refuses to separate the two activities ; the
physical effort and the discovery of the landscape through a progressive gaze allow him
to construct slowly his images, both in stillness and movement. In his photographs,
landscape contrasts with mankind, geological time with human time, and the movement
of the walker with the permanence of the stone and the silence of the mountains.
Eric Bourret lives, walks and photographs in Marseille, in the Alps and in the Himalayas.
In 2015, he participates to the 56th Venice Biennale and publishes two books, including
a retrospective of his work since 2005.
His work is part of many public and private collections and museums in Europe and in
the United States.
Solo (*) and group shows,
hikes associated to the
artist’s project
(selection 2015-2006)
2015
Personal Structures - Crossing Borders, 56th Venice Art Biennal, Italy
Éric Bourret 2006-2014 / “Et l’espace fera de moi un être humain”, Musée Ziem,
Martigues, France (*)
Timescape, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France (*)
L’expérience de la marche - l’expérience du visible, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles (*)
Biennial of the Frontiers, Tamaulipas Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico
Nuit(s), Musée de la Photographie A.Villers, Mougins, France (*)
Winter hike, Ecrins massif, France
Spring crossing on the Atlantic ocean
2014
Paris Photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Grand Palais, Paris
Mer & Ciel, Musée d’Art, Toulon
Winter hike, Etna, Italy
Spring crossing, Rupshu, Spiti, the Himalayas, India and Tibet
2013
Le temps de la marche, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles, Archives
départementale, Aix-en-Provence (*) - during Marseille-Provence Capitale Européenne
de la Culture 2013
Timescape, Galerie A.Lazarew, Paris (*)
Et si ce n’était pas la mélancolie, Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles, France
Le Temps de la marche, Galerie J.Greset, Besançon, France (*)
Winter hike, Mercantour massif, Ecrins massif, France
Spring hike, Iceland
Summer crossing, Ladakh, Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
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2012
Excuse me, while, I kiss the sky, Centre d’art Le Moulin, la Valette-du-Var, France (*)
Éric Bourret, Photographies, Galerie DNR, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (*)
La Sainte-Victoire de loin en proche, L’Aigalier, Salon-de-Provence, France
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Winter hike, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles mountains, France
Summer hike, Mercantour mountain, France
Summer hike, Changtang and Rupshu, the Himalayas, India
Winter hike, Khumbu, Annapurna and Mustang mountains, Nepal
2011
Élévations, Galerie DNR, l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (*)
Regard sur la Collection, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France
L’Art Contemporain et la Côte d’Azur, un territoire pour l’expérimentation 1951-2011,
Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France
Summer crossing of a glacier, Zanskar and Paldar, the Himalayas, India
Winter hike, Sainte Victoire, Sainte Baume, Alpilles mountains, France
Autumn hike, Mercantour, Queyras mountains, France
Winter hike, Etna, Italy
2010
What do we really know about landscape?, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South
Africa (*)
Écrire sur l’eau, Abbaye de Reigny, Vermenton, France (*)
Lure, Musée Prieuré de Salagon, Mane, France (*)
All-season hikes in the Calanques, Marseille
Winter hike, Lure mountain, France
2009
Tout ce qui est à voir est ce que vous voyez, Musée départemental Arles Antique,
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, France
Winter residence and walk in the territory of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Winter hike, Lesotho
Autumn-winter hike, Lure mountain, France
Spring hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
2008
Hun-Tun, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (*)
Temps de pause, Galerie Annie Lagier, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Hike in the Mont Blanc mountain
All-season walks in the southern Alps, Mercantour, Queyras and Ecrins, France
Spring crossing, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
2007
Hikes in Bagan and Mrauk U, Myanmar
Summer hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, India
All-season hikes in the southern-northern Alps, France
Glacier Spring crossing, France and Switzerland
2006
Le Var et l’ailleurs, L’hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France (*)
All-season walks, coastline, Var region, France
Spring hike, glacier, France and Switzerland
Spring hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
Publications
(selection)
Eric Bourret, 2005-2014, Et l’espace fera de moi un être humain, Musée Ziem editions
(2015), text by P. Padovani and P. Piguet
Dans la gueule de l’espace, Arnaud Bizalion Editions (2015), text by B.S. Girons
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Excuse me, while I kiss the sky, éditions de l’air (2014), text by E. de L’Ecotais
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Le temps de la marche, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles text by P. Parlant, Fage
editions (2013)
La Sainte-Victoire de loin en proche, texts by O.Domerg, J.M.Gleize, V. Vassiliou, Autres
et Pareils editions (2012)
Excuse me, while I kiss the sky, text by F. Coadou, Centre d’Art le Moulin editions
(2011)
Lure, text by F. Bazzoli, Fage editions (2010)
Hun-Tun, texts by P. Padovani, G. Perlein and M. Renoue, Fage editions (2008)
Le Var et l’ailleurs, texts by G.Altieri and J. Arrouye, Hôtel des Arts editions , Toulon
(2005)
Montagne au carré, texts by F. Verlinden, P. Grand, O. Domerg, Fage editions (2004)
Égypte, Jordanie, Liban, Syrie, Yémen, text by G. Beaugé, ville de Salon de Provence
editions (2000)
L’oeil ouvert, un parcours photographique 1983-1998, text by P. Roegiers, Nathan
editions (2000)
Plan(s), text by Y. Geffroy, sacripant editions (2000)
Nice, Dix photographes, Une ville, text by X. Girard, G. Gardette editions (1997)
Collections
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Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Moderne, Nice, France
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
Le Parvis, Scène Nationale, Tarbes, France
Hôtel des Arts, Centre Méditerranéen d’Art, Toulon, France
Théâtre de la Photographie, Nice, France
Le C.A.I.R.N, Digne-les-Bains, France
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles, France
Musée Prieuré de Salagon, Mane, France
Fonds Départemental, Conseil général de l’Yonne, France
Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Musée Départemental, Gap, France
Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Aurillac, France
Musée Intercommunal d’Histoire et d’Archéologie, Louvres, France
Musée de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
Fonds Communal, Ville de Marseille, France
Fondation Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
Faculté de Toulon, France
Centre d’Études Cathares, Arques, France
Cities of Lyon, Manosque, La Seyne-sur-Mer, La Valette-du-Var, Vitry-sur-Seine
Direction Départementale de l’Équipement, Marseille, France
Artothèques de Draguignan, Fos-sur-Mer, Grenoble, Nantes and Nice, France
Hermès box presented to Heads of State, Council of Europe, Nice, France
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Muséu da Imagen, Braga, Portugal
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy
Private collections: Europe, South Africa and United States
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