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2008
Eric Rondepierre
Photography
50 x 67 cm
Ilfochrome on aluminium
In theseries entitled Seuils (thresholds),Eric Rondepierre creates a dialogue between scenes extracted from silent filmsand stills from film reels that have been cut or damaged. The images containand convey obsessions that are shared by cinema and the history of art ingeneral: the body, desire, eroticism, death, loneliness, etc. The resultis a curious amalgam, where two mediums and two different times meet. Thisassociation brings cinematographic ghosts back to life in the middle ofcontemporary scenes, by contrasting black and white against colour, the differencein fashion and hairstyles and, more subtly, in attitudes and postures - unfailingmarkers of time. “I see a threshold as an area of hesitation,breach, and a sign of discontinuity. It is a call to something different, tothe unknown.” Eric Rondepierre.
Courtesy of the artist and GalerieRX, Paris / ©ADAGP
In theseries entitled Seuils (thresholds),Eric Rondepierre creates a dialogue between scenes extracted from silent filmsand stills from film reels that have been cut or damaged. The images containand convey obsessions that are shared by cinema and the history of art ingeneral: the body, desire, eroticism, death, loneliness, etc. The resultis a curious amalgam, where two mediums and two different times meet. Thisassociation brings cinematographic ghosts back to life in the middle ofcontemporary scenes, by contrasting black and white against colour, the differencein fashion and hairstyles and, more subtly, in attitudes and postures - unfailingmarkers of time. “I see a threshold as an area of hesitation,breach, and a sign of discontinuity. It is a call to something different, tothe unknown.” Eric Rondepierre.
Eric Rondepierre
France
Born in 1950
Born in Orleans, France
Lives and works in Paris.
Lives and works in Paris.
Born in 1950, Eric Rondepierre is considered a quintessential figure in contemporary fine-art photography. His work examines the imaginary and conceptual ties between fine-art photography, cinema, video and animation.
In the early 1990s, he began to explore what he terms the “dead angles” of cinematography, extracting from feature-film spools photograms damaged by projector lights. The surreal poetry of these “accidents” brings new intrigue to life for the viewer.
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