Thursday, July 9, 2020

Artist of the day, July 9, 2020: Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand, a French physicist, chemist, plastic artist, photographer (#1036)

Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand is a French physicist, chemist, plastic artist, photographer. After studying science at the Faculty of Science in Paris where he tackled mechanics and logic and failing the entrance exam for Arts and Crafts, he obtained a master’s degree in Physical Sciences (1969).

After several years of work in the world of Physical Science, he devoted himself to painting due to health problems. For 10 years, he painted and participated in numerous exhibitions.

Around 1979, his plastic research led him to photography. His first works in small black and white formats date from 1980. In 1982, he received the DRAC grant (Aide à la Création) which allowed him to rediscover the daguerreotype, which he produced until 1986. He is considered to be the one of the most important contemporary daguerreotypist.

In 1986, he was represented by the Michèle Chomette gallery in Paris. He received the ACMISA grant in 1989. He produced Optica Naturalis IV for the Georges Pompidou center (National Museum of Modern Art), and a daguerreotype panorama of Paris for the Carnavalet Museum.

In 1990, he was awarded the European Center for Contemporary Artistic Actions (CEAAC).

From 1992, he began to play with the inverted image. In 1993, he designed a restaurant room in Strasbourg, and he received the CNAP grant for a Study on the Church of Notre Dame d'Etampes.

In 2000, he was represented by the Baudoin Lebon gallery in Paris. He obtained the WATTWILLER scholarship the same year.

During his 10 years when he was interested in painting, Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand embarked on an observation of reality, immersing himself in a hyperrealistic painting, cold, precise, analytical using lacquers and acrylics to slow drying. He chooses, frames, samples, isolates certain elements rather than others, he works on the shadows, the sources of light and he flees the notion of perspective.

Then he begins to work with photographic tools because photography reminds him of the scientific, technological rigor and the poetic aesthetic that he translates with humor. His photographs, strictly analog, are black and white argentic. He takes his own photographs, from shooting to prints. His photos are characterized by a playful imagination, associated with complex technologies such as the Daguerreotype, periphotography, strobophotography, chemical turns, direct monotypes, rayograms and other inventions of his own.

For him, photography is a way of looking at the world and giving it a temporary meaning. Thanks to the light variations necessary for taking a photograph, the artist wants to invent new photographic processes. The artist then asks the question of the optical phenomena and the systems invented to restore the impression of space and depth.

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Patrick Bailly-Maitre-Grand

 Les Noires
1980

 Les Classiques
1980-85

Statue de la Liberté
1984

Statue de la Liberté
1984

 Céline
1993

 Poussières d'eau
1994

 Mouches millimetrées
1995

 Anneaux d'eau
1997

 Uranies
2000

Les Gueules cassées
2009

Les Gueules cassées
2009

Testaments 
2009

Testaments
2009

 Hibernatus
2010

 Apollo 11
2011

 Confusius 
2011

Scènes de ménage
2012

Scènes de ménage
2012

 Les Codex 
2013

Morituri te saluant 
2014-2016

Morituri te saluant 
2014-2016

 Les Baobabs 
2015

 Les Cires
2015

 Les Guenilles
2015

 Les Lucioles
2015

 Les Miroirs d'antan
2015

 Mahabharata
2016

 L’Anniversaire des vétérans
2017

 Les Marque-pages
2017

 Les Niponnes
2017

Les Braille
2018

 Les Evasions
2018

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