PAINTED LADIES - Valérie Belin and Éric Reinhardt
Painted Ladies, signed and numbered 800 copies, consists of a series of portraits of women, painted in 2017, whose faces have been reworked: each bears the marks of a brush used for painting and make-up. Brushes and pigments evoke tribal painting; these images seem to result from initiation rites. With their eyes absent, each woman is distinguished by her own pictorial style: the superimposition of strata inscribes the image with a certain abstraction. In an obsessive desire to appropriate reality, Valérie Belin fixes her lens on the surface of people and things, the better to reveal their density and enigmatic character. Her work in series, based on a subtle interplay of repetition and variation, gives her images a minimalist rigor. His photographs appear both flat and sculptural, two-dimensional and voluminous. This artist's book has been conceived as a jewel case: the delicate textures of the different Japanese papers reveal, through shimmering effects, the portraits of these eight women, accompanied by an unpublished text by Éric Reinhardt that evokes the idea of the multiplication of identity.
SIGNED AND NUMBERED (405/800)
Published by Editions Xavier Barral, 2019
23 cm x 28 cm, 72 pages, bound in slipcase
ISBN 978-2-36511-233-8
Painted Ladies, signed and numbered 800 copies, consists of a series of portraits of women, painted in 2017, whose faces have been reworked: each bears the marks of a brush used for painting and make-up. Brushes and pigments evoke tribal painting; these images seem to result from initiation rites. With their eyes absent, each woman is distinguished by her own pictorial style: the superimposition of strata inscribes the image with a certain abstraction. In an obsessive desire to appropriate reality, Valérie Belin fixes her lens on the surface of people and things, the better to reveal their density and enigmatic character. Her work in series, based on a subtle interplay of repetition and variation, gives her images a minimalist rigor. His photographs appear both flat and sculptural, two-dimensional and voluminous. This artist's book has been conceived as a jewel case: the delicate textures of the different Japanese papers reveal, through shimmering effects, the portraits of these eight women, accompanied by an unpublished text by Éric Reinhardt that evokes the idea of the multiplication of identity.
SIGNED AND NUMBERED (405/800)
Published by Editions Xavier Barral, 2019
23 cm x 28 cm, 72 pages, bound in slipcase
ISBN 978-2-36511-233-8
Painted Ladies, signed and numbered 800 copies, consists of a series of portraits of women, painted in 2017, whose faces have been reworked: each bears the marks of a brush used for painting and make-up. Brushes and pigments evoke tribal painting; these images seem to result from initiation rites. With their eyes absent, each woman is distinguished by her own pictorial style: the superimposition of strata inscribes the image with a certain abstraction. In an obsessive desire to appropriate reality, Valérie Belin fixes her lens on the surface of people and things, the better to reveal their density and enigmatic character. Her work in series, based on a subtle interplay of repetition and variation, gives her images a minimalist rigor. His photographs appear both flat and sculptural, two-dimensional and voluminous. This artist's book has been conceived as a jewel case: the delicate textures of the different Japanese papers reveal, through shimmering effects, the portraits of these eight women, accompanied by an unpublished text by Éric Reinhardt that evokes the idea of the multiplication of identity.
SIGNED AND NUMBERED (405/800)
Published by Editions Xavier Barral, 2019
23 cm x 28 cm, 72 pages, bound in slipcase
ISBN 978-2-36511-233-8
