past exhibitions
Colles & Chimères
10/25/2012 - 12/01/2012exposition de Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand
Born on February, the 1st of 1945 in Paris. After a decade devoted to painting, Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, has been working with photographic tools since 1980. His works, strictly analogic, argentic in black & white, are characterised by a ludic imaginary and associated with a taste for complex technologies such as daguerreotype, peri-photography, strobe-photography ? and other inventions of its own.
LE GRAND SOMMEIL
« An old bloody mattress, ripped, burned; this is quite a curious fantasy. I confess its influence but still I cannot explain its reason. No doubt that we can see ? like in the series : Les Maximiliennes ? this effect of transfer that tormented objects can reach when, like me, one cannot stand to confront human suffering. Like a child who would see himself as Zorro, I am only making people believe that I am capable of compassion. Those rags of bristle and cotton are fake entrails, ersatz of pain. In short, they are a way to escape.?
Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand
