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This book was produced for the exhibition "La mer allée avec le soleil" by Ange Leccia, presented at the HAB Galerie in Nantes, in 2016, and produced by Le Voyage à Nantes.
In 2009, in Nantes, Ange Leccia created *Nymphéa*, a permanent installation for *Estuaire*, consisting of a video projection on the water’s surface: in the birthplace of Jacques Demy, he installed the ethereal image of a fashion and film icon, Laetitia Casta. By playing with the dazzling effects of the image on the water, Ange Leccia returned to the very essence of video: the projection of light. The time of the shot merges with the time of the flowing water. Nymphéa is underwater, just as all the images Ange Leccia seeks are within him.
This quest, this journey into the self, is the theme of “La mer allée avec le soleil.” An introspective exhibition, like a dive into thirty-five years of practice in which we encounter all the elements that make up the uniqueness and beauty of Ange Leccia’s work: the omnipresence of water, images like memories of his Corsican youth; the explosions, storms, thunderstorms, and breaking waves that illustrate his highly sensitive nature; reworked television images in which inner gravity meets the gravity of the world (in constant contrast to the beauty of the natural world); young girls or adolescence as the state of artistic creation of all possibilities, yet one in which one feels lost in the face of the unknown; pop music and hit songs that often cling to the memory of a powerful emotion.
Published by Éditions Dilecta, 2016
21 cm 28 cm, 88 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
This book was produced for the exhibition "La mer allée avec le soleil" by Ange Leccia, presented at the HAB Galerie in Nantes, in 2016, and produced by Le Voyage à Nantes.
In 2009, in Nantes, Ange Leccia created *Nymphéa*, a permanent installation for *Estuaire*, consisting of a video projection on the water’s surface: in the birthplace of Jacques Demy, he installed the ethereal image of a fashion and film icon, Laetitia Casta. By playing with the dazzling effects of the image on the water, Ange Leccia returned to the very essence of video: the projection of light. The time of the shot merges with the time of the flowing water. Nymphéa is underwater, just as all the images Ange Leccia seeks are within him.
This quest, this journey into the self, is the theme of “La mer allée avec le soleil.” An introspective exhibition, like a dive into thirty-five years of practice in which we encounter all the elements that make up the uniqueness and beauty of Ange Leccia’s work: the omnipresence of water, images like memories of his Corsican youth; the explosions, storms, thunderstorms, and breaking waves that illustrate his highly sensitive nature; reworked television images in which inner gravity meets the gravity of the world (in constant contrast to the beauty of the natural world); young girls or adolescence as the state of artistic creation of all possibilities, yet one in which one feels lost in the face of the unknown; pop music and hit songs that often cling to the memory of a powerful emotion.
Published by Éditions Dilecta, 2016
21 cm 28 cm, 88 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
