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[Photographie] Marc TRIVIER

Michel. Liège 1980

Par l'auteur, s.l. 1980, 22x22cm sur papier Ilford 30x40cm, une feuille.

Large original photographic portrait in black and white directed and shot by Marc Trivier.
Unsigned silver print, like most of Trivier's works. Unique proof drawn by the artist.


Photographs of artists, madmen, trees or slaughterhouses, Marc Trivier approaches all these subjects with a look as precise as intense.
"In its cosmogony, every thing, every being, vegetable, animal or human, deserves the same respect. For all are confronted with the same law of brass: loneliness. (Luc Desbenoit)
The beauty that emanates from his photos comes from this nudity. There is no editing or cropping. We find in his work the same square format that traps our eyes in photographs where the makeup of color is rejected for an incisive black and white. Since all artificiality has disappeared, we are not dealing with the staging of a subject but with a presence exacerbated by the radiant and singular light, witness of a moment of life and not of pose. It is this light, linked to and obsessed with Trivier's medium, that gives his works the aura that makes them so present:
"Of thirty-five years of photographic practice, of obsessions, it is perhaps that which remains: a singular mode of recording of the burning of light, declined from one image to another, in a succession propositions that are similar and yet each is as singular as the fraction of time to which it refers. (Marc Trivier)

Warhol, Foucault, Beckett, Dubuffet ... the greatest writers and artists have posed for Trivier. At the same time, the artist is also interested in the margins of society, which men do not want to see. He then photographs the lunatics and slaughterhouses he places next to celebrities. By the end of the 1980s his work was unanimously recognized and he received the prestigious Young Photographer Award from the International Center of Photography in 1988 as well as the Prix Photographie Ouverte (Charleroi). After the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, the Casino in Luxembourg, the European House of Photography in Paris devotes a major retrospective to him in 2011.

The photographs of the lunatics that Trivier made during the same contemporary were exhibited alongside those of the artists during the Paris retrospective of 2011. While the photographs of doctors like those of Charcot in the nineteenth century stress the illness of patients and make them to pose in such a way as to make their symptoms visible, those that Trivier takes do not seek to make the madman a mere witness of a pathology, or even another, someone who would be characterized by his difference. As with his other series, he leaves the system of the pose which is an artifice to reach the humanity of his subjects. These men have a powerful look. They are similar to artists and sometimes reveal a higher vitality. They stand straight in their chair, and we defy for some of the look.

 

Ensemble des expositions de Marc Trivier

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