Les Bouquinistes #2 — PhotoSaintGermain

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Beaux-Arts de Paris

Groupshow

Maison Auguste Comte

Ange Leccia

Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine

Timothy Prus

Centre Culturel Irlandais

Roseanne Lynch

Centre Tchèque de Paris

Vladimír Birgus

Institut Culturel Italien

Michele Nastasi et Stefano Cerio

Institut Hongrois

Vilmos Zsigmond

La Maison de l'Amérique Latine

Miguel Rothschild

L'Agence à Paris

Johanna Reich

Galerie Alain Le Gaillard

Ilse Bing

Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès

Mario Giacomelli

Galerie Catherine & André Hug

Costanza Gastaldi

Galerie du Crous

Thérèse Verrat et Vincent Toussaint

Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art

Emile Zola

Galerie Folia

Patrick Tourneboeuf

Galerie La Forest Divonne

Lucien Hervé

Galerie Gimpel & Müller

Galerie PhotoSaintGermain

Nicolas Silberfaden

Galerie Ségolène Brossette

Simon Brodbeck & Lucie de Barbuat, Cerise Doucède

Horizon Avenue

Groupshow

IMA - Galerie Nicolas Deman

IMA

Les Bouquinistes #1

Bandini Books × Stephen Dean × Camille Flammarion

Les Bouquinistes #2

Mireille Blanc, Un livre - une image

Les Bouquinistes #3

Thomas Mailaender × Nelson Wilmotte

Les Bouquinistes #4

Valérie Mréjen × Marion Mailaender

N°	Location	Artist	Type	District
1	Beaux-Arts de Paris	Groupshow	Institution	75006
2	Maison Auguste Comte	Ange Leccia	Institution	75006
3	Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine	Timothy Prus	Institution	75006
4	Centre Culturel Irlandais	Roseanne Lynch	Centre Culturel	75005
5	Centre Tchèque de Paris	Vladimír Birgus	Centre Culturel	75006
6	Institut Culturel Italien	Michele Nastasi et Stefano Cerio	Centre Culturel	75007
7	Institut Hongrois	Vilmos Zsigmond	Centre Culturel	75006
8	La Maison de l'Amérique Latine	Miguel Rothschild	Centre Culturel	75007
9	L'Agence à Paris	Johanna Reich	Galerie	75006
10	Galerie Alain Le Gaillard	Ilse Bing	Galerie	75006
11	Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès	Mario Giacomelli	Galerie	75006
12	Galerie Catherine & André Hug	Costanza Gastaldi	Galerie	75006
13	Galerie du Crous	Thérèse Verrat et Vincent Toussaint	Galerie	75006
14	Galerie Meyer Oceanic & Eskimo Art	Emile Zola	Galerie	75006
15	Galerie Folia	Patrick Tourneboeuf	Galerie	75006
16	Galerie La Forest Divonne	Lucien Hervé	Galerie	75006
17	Galerie Gimpel & Müller	Pit Kroke	Galerie	75006
18	Galerie Gradiva	Groupshow	Galerie	75007
19	Galerie l’Inlassable	Marvin Leuvrey	Galerie	75006
20	Galerie Lee	Pierrot Men	Galerie	75006
21	Galerie Madé	Marie Quéau	Galerie	75006
22	Galerie Le Minotaure	Carl Strüwe	Galerie	75006
23	Galerie PhotoSaintGermain	Nicolas Silberfaden	Galerie	75006
24	Galerie Ségolène Brossette	Simon Brodbeck & Lucie de Barbuat, Cerise Doucède	Galerie	75006
25	Horizon Avenue	Groupshow	Galerie	75006
26	IMA - Galerie Nicolas Deman	IMA	Galerie	75006
27	Les Bouquinistes #1	Bandini Books × Stephen Dean × Camille Flammarion	Librairie	75007
28	Les Bouquinistes #2	Mireille Blanc, Un livre - une image	Librairie	75007
29	Les Bouquinistes #3	Thomas Mailaender × Nelson Wilmotte	Librairie	75007
30	Les Bouquinistes #4	Valérie Mréjen × Marion Mailaender	Librairie	75007
31	Librairie des Alpes	Groupshow	Librairie	75006
32	Le Plac’Art Photo	Daisuke Yokota	Librairie	75006

Les Bouquinistes #2

Box 2

Curated by Virginie Huet and Aurélia Marcadier
DATES ! From 6 to 17 November 2019

Facing 1 quai Voltaire
75006
From tuesday to sunday, 11 am to 5 pm

Mireille Blanc, Un livre - une image

La déprise

Photography seems to inhabit Mireille Blanc's pictorial practice. She is a material and reflective source for her own work. The singularity of the images she produces daily lies in their apparent banality and simplicity. On occasion, she even re-photographs existing images. The spontaneous, poor, sometimes clumsy recording of everyday life becomes the strange subject of her paintings.

Mireille Blanc's encounter with the photographic archives of Un livre - une image constitutes an opportunity for her to question once again the detachment created by photography. The source document disappears making way for pictorial matter.

She became interested in the details of photographs which were hand-colored by amateurs, who, for the most part, chose to highlight only a few elements : a pillow, a book, skin, an item of clothing, a flower. The colored element stands out as a fragment. Its importance, its singularity, appears obvious. However, some of these objects tend towards a form of abstraction. Mireille Blanc re-appropriates these images, partially transposing them into painting, using a thick, dense and fluid material. She operates displacements; the document becomes her subject.

Other paintings represent what is non-figurative. She paints the remnants. The remnants of damaged, used matrixes, of daguerreotypes with their chemical alterations which have contaminated the portraits, leaving only ghosts, traces. Painting these remnants, injecting matter - oil - to represent a smooth surface rendered blank by time is somewhat contradictory and absurd, and confined to failure for Mireille Blanc. Impossible and exciting attempts. What transpires are colored and abstract surfaces, where only a few clues (the edges, backgrounds and beyond, the physical presence of the daguerreotypes) allow identification.

The challenge offered to Mireille Blanc and Un livre - une image to invest a stall generally dedicated to diverse forms of publication is a wonderful excuse to unite painting and photography around the notion of reproduction and the creation of new images - an extrication of the source image and figurative reality

Mireille Blanc
Mireille Blanc's painting practice focuses entirely on the question of the image and its reproduction, raising the question of the overtaking of the photographic image by painting.
mireilleblanc.com

Un livre - une image
Gallery created in 2010 by Emmanuelle Fructus, photography historian, dedicated to vernacular photography.
unlivreuneimage.free.fr

Roch Deniau
Graphic designer, he exercises his practice in the fields of print, digital and volume.
rochdeniau.com