Thursday, November 9, 2017

Artist of the day, November 9: Eric Marrian, French photographer and architect

Eric Marrian (1959) is an architect. In 2003, he decided to come back to his first love that was photography, a subject he hesitated to turn into a career in the end of his Architectural Studies. At this time, he started a series on Saint Malo, then turned to studio photography. In 2005, he started a studio series produced in large and medium format based on a graphic and surrealist approach of the nude. This process will lead to the birth of the Carré Blanc series which he will never let go of. As an asexual representation of the nude art photography and to shape a purely graphic representation, architectured and devoid of erotic tension, this series claims to be ascetic and unsensualized.

Through this art and its function, he strives to make the viewer forget its primary function by reminding him only its graphic function while creating this surrealistic dimension. In Eric Marrian’s work, the model is partial, minimal and infinite. Curves and lines become absolute and disproportionate as they spread out of the physical frame, of the surrounding space, in a cold aesthetic, as a desire to pare down the body, to bring it back to a state of matter, raw and inert, in order to define it and model it better. Bodies are thus shaped modeled as if by a sculptor, laughing at a cheated spectator, confusing him on purpose to better serve him. He won the 2006 prize of the European Festival of Nude Photography in Arles. He continues this year, finding new inspirations as months go by. This work is now recognized worldwide and has been exhibited and published many times in France and abroad. Famous and followed by many advertisers, it cultivates a critical eye on the fashion world, signing its first op-eds in 2010.




Mr Eric Marrian

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

 © 2017, Eric Marrian. All right reserved.

No comments:

Post a Comment