Lot
41
Untitled (Crunchtime 32)
Épreuve à la gélatine argentique, 2009
73 x 114 cm
Photogramme unique
Valeur estimée
5 800 $
Ce photogramme unique fait partie d’une série ouverte de photographies prises sans appareil, avec de la neige, pendant les mois d’hiver au Québec. Je fais des photos avec de la neige depuis plus de vingt ans.
La série Crunchtime remonte à 2008. Avant d’être exposé à la lumière, le papier photographique est plié et froissé comme un manuscrit rejeté. Ensuite, je le déplie, le place dehors, l’hiver, la nuit, de manière à l’exposer à la neige, au terrain, et aux énergies qui se déploient à ce moment-là. Crunchtime 32 est l’un des rares petits formats de cette série.
Je m’intéresse aux choses que nous ne voyons pas alors que nous savons qu’elles sont là.
Notice biographique
Michael Flomen was born in Montreal in 1952. He began taking photographs in the late 1960s, and has been showing his work on several continents since 1972. He has been a darkroom printer and collaborator for many artists including for Jacques Henri Lartigue’s travelling exhibition in Canada and the United States in the mid-1970s. Flomen’s first book of “street photographs,” which followed the Cartier Bresson formalism of photographic picture making, was published in 1980, followed by Still Life Draped Stone in 1985. Flomen switched camera formats in the early 1990s, photographing snow and producing works under the title RISING. For the last fifteen years, this self-taught artist has used camera-less techniques to collaborate with nature. Various forms of water, firefly light, wind, and other natural phenomena are the inspiration for his picture making. Michael Flomen’s work is in the collections of George Eastman House, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Norton Museum of Fine Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
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