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Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France, May 12-August 28, 2023; MAC, Musée d'art contemporain de Marseille, France, December 15, 2023-March 31, 2024.
Includes bibliographical references.
Born in 1960 in Sallanches, Marc Desgrandchamps, a major painter on the French art scene, explores the notions of opacity, transparency and superimposition. His figurative work moves away from the codes of realistic representation and lets the strange emerge, on the borders of surrealism: distorted perspective, indefinite space, fragmented bodies, ghostly objects ... 0Evanescence, fragmentation, infinitude are all words that recur for talk about his work. Recognizable by a certain number of recurring patterns? the bathers, the blue skies? his painting is also revealed by its ± drips?, which the painter voluntarily lets spread on the canvas. Drawing his references from numerous worlds (art history, photography, cinema, literature, music, but also personal photos) the artist explores the limits of figuration, offering a vision that is both panoramic and synthetic. modern art.0Built around recurring themes in the work of Desgrandchamps (Ancient history, art history, landscape, architecture ...) and enriched by several essays by specialists, this ambitious monograph, co-published with the Dijon museum and the MAC in Marseille reveals a strong and singular work, playing on the numerous crossings between space, color and light.
Parallel texts in French and English.
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