Jérôme Bryon "Grand Sud" - Galerie La Forest Divonne

12 rue des Beaux-Arts 75006 Paris
01 40 29 97 52 / 06 84 33 98 88
[email protected]
www.galerielaforestdivonne.com
EXHIBITION
Jérôme Bryon "Grand Sud"
May 19 - June 25 2016
Landscape 05, Grand Sud, 2013, C-Print, 100 x 80 cm, Edition de 6 + 3 EA
Jeudi des Beaux-Arts
Thursday June 2nd
Art Saint Germain des Prés: May 31 - June 5
Book signing with Jérôme Bryon on June 2nd from 6pm to 9pm
Exceptional opening on Sunday June 5th from 2pm to 6pm
Press Release
Marie Helene de la Forest Divonne has been working with Jerome Bryon since 2011.
For this second solo exhibition, the gallery will display two of his most recent series.
Grand Sud, a portrait of wanderlust
«I seek to find the beautiful in the mediocre, the mundane. To photograph is to structure reality
and, as a result, to raise it to a new status. I am guided by the desire to save the mediocre, in
reviving it with beauty. Every day, I cultivate my garden, and my garden is what surrounds me :
Grand Sud is the mall around the corner in the industrial zone.»
Jérôme Bryon interrogates the uninspired, charmless common grounds and,
through his objective gaze, transforms them into strong and powerful images.
These disenchanting estates resemble the Decorated Sheds theorized by Robert Venturi in Learning from Las Vegas. Through a faint gesture, a single step closer to the eye
of the camera, he turns over the documentary gaze of the reporter in a search for
the visual harmony and aesthetic coherence unique to art photography.
Landscape 01, Grand Sud, 2013, C-Print, 100 x 60 cm, Edition de 6 + 3 EA
The Grand Sud series is an important new step in the photographic journey of Jérôme
Bryon: His studies on detail, integral in an investigation of the texture and consistency of reality, find in this thematic series a new balance between form and subject,
vision and narration.
This body of work is a subtle balancing act between the empty and full, the vertical
and horizontal. These near-abstract photographs reveal the clues that guide the photographer’s wanderlust in this unraveling space. They align with visual haikus: silent
and enigmatic works of poetry, where reality imperceptibly slips into abstraction
and unveils its hidden command.
Portrait of My Mother
«Photography is simply my therapy. The more I cultivate this
practice, the stronger I feel. Even if, at times, I step upon a
complication, the experience remains positive.»
Jérôme Bryon explores portraiture through repeated
shots of common houses on wholly deserted beaches.
These structures, in the calm and quiet night, take on
the appearance of piercing silhouettes, implicitly reflecting an absence, an experience once lived.
A book coedited by Galerie La Forest
Divonne and the Editions Cercle d’Art is being published for his exhibition. Possibilité de survie en milieu
hostile - Way to survive in a hostile environment is a both
intimate and documentary book about Jérome Bryon’s
photographic series since 2005.
Portrait 01, 2015, C-Print, 80 x 60 cm, Edition de 6 + 3 EA
Book, Possibilité de survie en milieu hostile, texts Hervé Le Goff , 112 pages, Editions Cercle d’Art, 35€
Press contact : Nathalie Dran Communication
[email protected] / 06 99 41 52 49
CV JÉRÔME BRYON
Born in 1974, lives and works in Montpellier
Diplomed of DEFA d’Architecture de Paris in 1996 and of Ecole des Gobelins à Paris in 1998
He is represented by Galerie La Forest Divonne since 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
2012
2009
2007
France, Paris, Gallery La Forest Divonne
France, Paris, Gallery Vieille du Temple
France, Paris, Hermès’ Foundation for Contemporary Art : Enfin Seul
France, Arles, 98%
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Passion Partagée, Gallery La Forest Divonne, Bruxelles
France, Paris, Grand-Palais, Art Paris – Art Fair, Gallery Marie Hélène de la Forest Divonne
France, Paris, Grand-Palais, Art Paris – Art Fair, Gallery Vieille du Temple
Frontalité, Approches du paysage, Château de Poncé–sur–le-Loir, Sarthe
France, Paris, Grand-Palais, Art Paris – Art Fair, Gallery Vieille du Temple
France, Château de Poncé-sur-le-Loir, Passions Partagées
France, Paris, Gallery Vieille du Temple, Sur le Fil
France, Paris, Gallery Vieille du Temple
Belgique, Bruxelles, Art on Paper – Drawing Fair, Gallery Vieille du Temple
HAPPENING
2012
France, Arles, International Meetings of Photography : L’exposition invisible
France, Montpellier, Bio supermarket : L’exposition invisible
Switzerland, Vevey, Festival Images : L’exposition invisible
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