Project
CROSSED PERSPECTIVES Exhibition
June 17 to 25, 2016
Opening on June 16, 2016 from 18:00
Galerie Lacroix
CROSSED PERSPECTIVES is the explosive and singular meeting of two artists, two forms of expression, two different ways of capturing the world. Alex Perret, photographer, and Alexis Masson, painter, collaborate together for the first time.
The aim of this exhibition is to provoke an artistic exchange and establish an atypical dialogue between the two artists' work around a common subject: humankind and its environment.
A true invitation to travel and spirituality, CROSSED PERSPECTIVES invites us to explore the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. Starting from photographs by Alex Perret, the painter reinterprets their essence by creating a new visual, upending its first reading to offer us an alternative interpretation.
Thus, by breaking down the structure of photography and redefining its lines and matter, Masson’s work invites the viewer to look beyond the real.
Facing the objectivity of Alex Perret’s photographs, Alexis Masson’s painted works invite us to reconsider our perception of the world by breaking down the boundaries between the two media, thus creating interactivity between the works.
Displayed in tandem, each painting and each photograph becomes a communicating bridge to the other’s world, immersing the viewer in a sort of parallel universe.
ALEX PERRET
A true globetrotter, Alex Perret is passionate about the people he meets over the course of his travels. It is humanity, his major subject of choice, but also the relentless beauty of his environment, his land, his country, that the photographer immortalizes in fascinating shots. For ten years now, photography has been the means of expression allowing him to question and share the world around him. Through the photographs, the viewer enters the intimacy of people and dives into the heart of the lives of the locals in the countries crossed. In Alex Perret’s photographs we find the traces of passage, that of the traveling photographer but also, more generally, that of humankind on earth. The photographs are journeys across the world, in which the photographer captures snatches of dialogue, silences, glances, waiting, and ultimately all those tiny moments that make up a life. The subtlety of the framing makes it possible to enter the lives of the inhabitants and feel their closeness, to share their torpor or joy. The artist’s portraits recount with great relevance the problems and conflicts of the world today and thus manage to capture their dramatic individual repercussions and their impact on everyday life.
The PHOTOGRAFFÉE Project
PHOTOGRAFFÉE is a project in which Alex Perret’s shots invite the artists Djalouz, Caligr, Pesca, and Doudou’Style to a poetic and singular reinterpretation. PHOTOGRAFFÉE was born five years ago from the meeting of photographer Alex Perret and the four artist members of the 2AC Anartchik collective. Together, they develop a new style in the art of mixing photography and painting. They renew the genre by uniting the real and the imaginary in a single vision, offering an intense and spontaneous snapshot of the world. The graffiti artists work directly on the photos. They apply a unique and definitive gesture to them. A dreamlike, at times defiant, appeal, PHOTOGRAFFÉE is a stopover at the crossroads of our world and our imaginations.
ALEXIS MASSON
Influenced by Fauvism and German Expressionism, Alexis Masson exhibits figurative painting tending toward abstraction, with a restless line and bright, intense colors. Paying homage to humankind and nature, Masson paints tangled bodies, female nudes, and landscapes, his main themes of choice. A grandson of Surrealist painter André Masson, Alexis Masson paints above all to try to grasp the mysteries of nature, human or earthly. Settled in his grandfather’s studio since 1991 in Le Tholonet, in Aix-en-Provence, it is in this same region that the artist discovered the sun and the blazing light, which he tries to transcribe in each of his canvases. The intensity and luminosity he gives to color, which bursts forth and predominates, radically transform the viewer’s perception. Alexis Masson’s emotionally powerful painting draws us into an almost chimerical world; his landscapes absorb us through the singularity of style and absolute mastery of line and color, his figures intertwine and merge into a kind of communion. Thus, man is almost always depicted in the midst of nature, his limbs merging among the elements. Masson thus definitively asserts himself as the zealous observer of his environment. His painting shows another kind of figuration, as his features are contorted, meticulously orchestrated, and above all skillfully mastered, enhanced by a subtle interplay of color and light. The artist upends our vision and our relationship to the world by mixing and directly confronting man and nature in his canvases, a symbolic testimony that one is inseparable from the other.
Objectives
- Organizing an Exhibition
- Theme Research / Design / Idea
- Content and Types of Works
- Finding the Venue
- Artists (Alexis Masson’s works were created specially for the exhibition)
- Partnerships
- Graphic design of communication visuals and printing
- Writing the press release
- Writing the information materials (exhibition, artist biographies, and wall labels)
- Communication
- Press relations
- General Coordination
- Framing
- Scenography
- Organizing the Opening
- Artist Contracts
- Marketing of Works
- Poster Sales (3 different posters)
Student (F)
Camille Trovel - 2nd Year Master in Contemporary Art