Photography
Christian COURREGES
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Introduction

Chistian Courrèges was born in 1950 in Aix-en-Provence and died in 2017 in Paris. He was teaching at the ENSAD.

 

Christian Courrèges was specialised in portraying members of the same defined groups, such as toreros, prisoners and guards of the Baumettes prison, French and English magistrates and prelates of Roman Curia in cloth. He also photographed close-ups of Haitians.

 

Hannah Arendt reminds us of the fact that the public space is by definition a space of appearance. In each series, the artist isolates the subject from any setting. The image is then entirely focused on the individual who can be identified thanks a function or status related attribute or uniform.

 

However, the artist helps us look beyond appearances and social classes, he questioned the tension between belonging to a group and asserting oneself, between authenticity and what is conventionally called ‘masking'.


 

Biography

Christian Courrèges

Aix-en-Provence, 1950 - Paris, 2017

 

Solo exhibitions

 

2014    

Salon H, Paris, France

  • Art Center of Yonne, Tanlay, France

 

2013     

Swenkas, baudoin lebon, Paris, France

 

2008

French cultural center, Constantine, Algeria

 

2006

baudoin lebon, Paris, France

 

2004

baudoin lebon, Paris, France

  • Royal Hall of Justice, London, UK
  • Photo & Co Gallery, Turin, Italy
  • Marco Voena Gallery, Milano, Italy
  • Jules Vallès Art Center, Saint-Martin-d?Hères, France
  • Observatorio Arte Fotografico, Recife, Brazil

 

2003

Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

 

2001

baudoin lebon, Paris, France

  • Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, France
  • Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

2000

ADCA, Longjumeau, France

  • Paris 13 University, Villetaneuse, France
  • COPRIM Foundation, Paris, France

 

1999

Cultural Center, Villeneuve d?Asq, France

  • Paris 13 University, Villetaneuse, France

 

1998

baudoin lebon, Paris, France

  • AM Tunnel Gallery, BCEL Foundation, Luxembourg
  • Regional center of Photography, Douchy-les-Mines, France

 

1997

Arrêt sur Image Gallery, Bordeaux, France

 

1996

Museum of social history, Montreuil, France

  • Champs Elysées Theater, Paris, France

 

1995

Élysée Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

1994

Salon Découverte, Paris, France

  • Pons Gallery, Paris, France

 

1992

French Institute, Innsbruck, Austria

 

1991

Pons Gallery, Paris, France

 

 

 

Group exhibitions

 

2017

Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France

 

2016

Biennial of the photograph of Tianshui, China

  • Faces, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain

 

2015    

First Biennial of the photograph of the contemporary Arab world, Arab World?s Institute, Paris, France

  • Faces, Photomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Faces Now, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium

 

2013

FNB Joburg Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2012    

Paris Photo, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France

 

2011

Paris-Photo 2011, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France

  • Madridfoto, Madrid, Spain

 

2010

Paris Photo, Paris, France

 

2009 

Paris-Photo, Paris, France

 

2007

Large Polaroïd Portraits, Paris Photo, Paris, France

 

2006

Biennial de Moscow, Moscow, Russia

  • ATTACAFA, Lille, France

 

2004

Festival de l?image, Le Mans, France

  • Photographic meetings, Salonique, France
  • Noorderlicht Photofestival, The Netherlands

 

2003

Paris-Photo, Paris, France

 

1999

Large Polaroïds Portraits, Basel, Switzerland

  • Large Polaroïds Portraits, FIAC, Paris, France

 

1993

International meetings of Photographie, with Pons Gallery, Arles, France

 

 

 

Awards

 

  • Léonard de Vinci, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • AFAA
  • Mission for the Patronage, CDC
  • CRP Nord-Pas de Calais
  • Ministry of justice
  • BCEL Foundation

 

 

 

Publications

 

  • Portraits de Familles, texte de Serge Daney, Galerie Pons/Afaa, 1992.
  • Autour de la Tauromachie, textes de Charles-Henri Favrod et Jacques Durand, 1995.
  • Portraits de Prison, texte de Daniel Dobbels, Baudoin Lebon éditeur, 1998.
  • Capitale Europe, Centre Régional de la photographie Nord Pas de Calais, 1998.
  • Haïti, Centre Régional de la photographie Nord Pas de Calais, 2001.
  • Les Magistrats, texte d?Antoine Garapon, baudoin lebon éditeur, 2004.
  • Les Prélats, texte de Francis Marmande, baudoin lebon éditeur, 2006.
  • Swenka, textes de Larisa Dryansky et Daniela Goeller, baudoin lebon éditeur, 2013.


public collections

Élysée Museum

Deposit and Consignment Office

BCEL Foundation

Nicéphore Nièpce Museum

National Portrait Gallery

Exhibitions

Wayne BARKER / Christian COURREGES / Walker EVANS / Yves GELLIE / Kyung-Ae HUR / Ayana V. JACKSON / Jacques Villeglé / Patrick WILLOCQ
Alain CLEMENT / Christian COURREGES / Yves GELLIE / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Christian COURREGES
Malala Andrialavidrazana / Patrick BAILLY-MAITRE-GRAND / Christian COURREGES / Yves GELLIE / Ayana V. JACKSON / Peter KNAPP / Chrystèle LERISSE / Lisette MODEL / Félix Tournachon dit NADAR / Pierre-Louis PIERSON / Joel-Peter WITKIN
Malala Andrialavidrazana / James BARNOR / Alain CLEMENT / Christian COURREGES

Publication

Christian Courreges - Les Magistrats
artists :

editeur : Baudoin Lebon
langue : Français
pays : France
pages : 56
format : 28 x 15 cm
reliure : Broché
prix public : 20 euros

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