Initiated at the stop of the 1970s, at a time when artistic images was almost solely a make any difference of black and white, the “Photocolore” series is notably revealing of the observe of John Batho, an artist born in 1939. Extremely early, from 1963 , the decision of shade appears obvious to him. In the pictures he requires of his near atmosphere, he isolates day-to-day objects on a colored track record to make them stand out better, he favors chromatic oppositions and multiplies shut-ups. The point of view is most frequently non-existent, so running a form of flattening of the subjects, additional amplifying the results and colored contrasts. John Batho speedily saw his title linked with the enthusiasm for color in France and was awarded, thanks to this sequence, the Kodak prize of photographic criticism in 1977.
The Mint Environmentally friendly, Canary Yellow exhibition usually takes as its starting up position the “Photocolore” sequence by John Batho, tiny demonstrated immediately after the 1980s with the exception of a couple emblematic visuals. Chosen from the broad collection of photos deposited by the artist at the Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the fall of 2021, forty-1 prints by John Batho have been brought with each other for the event. The latter obtaining constantly sought the best way to transpose shade on to paper, the exhibition brings together period prints and extra recent prints, produced making use of different processes, as a result allowing the materiality of shade to be appreciated: Fresson charcoal prints , Cibachromes, digital prints.
These historical photos by John Batho are set into perspective with individuals of 4 artists born in the 1980s and 1990s: Luke Stephenson (1983), Dorian Teti (1983), Piero Percoco (1987) and Laure Tiberghien (1992). Even if they belong to an additional technology of color photographers and even if none of them statements a immediate affiliation with the perform of their elder, they have every single positioned colour at the coronary heart of their follow. For many years they have been renewing though updating selected art ideas previously at work in “Photocolore”: the opportunity for attraction and seduction of coloration, its partnership to every day lifetime and the banal, the partnership to painting and abstraction, its narrative dimension as a structuring ingredient of a story. For them, it is not just a dilemma of photographing in coloration but of photographing coloration. From mint inexperienced to canary yellow, from midnight blue to dove grey, the evocative ability of hues is inscribed appropriate down to their name, attesting if it have been continue to vital to show their constantly renewed ability to produce an image.
Exhibition structured in partnership with the Media Library of Architecture and Heritage.
Vert menthe, jaune canari. La couleur en photographie
from June 25 to Oct 08, 2022
L’Imagerie
19 Rue Jean Savidan
22300 Lannion, France
https://galerie-imagerie.fr/
