Jérôme Bryon "Grand Sud" - Galerie La Forest Divonne
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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 www.galerielaforestdivonne.com