Gerald Petit Biography Gerald Petit, born in 1973, works and live in Dijon (France). He has had several solo exhibitions in institutions such as Niepce Museum (2000), Lectoure photographic Center (2000) and Albi Art Center, which were some of the first to support and promote this singular work. Since then, he participated in exhibitions in Paris, Hiroshima and New York. In 2006, he will be having his first US solo show at LMAK projects, and will show solo projects at the Prague Biennial (May), the Lisbonne Biennal (June) and the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal in Japan (July). Images from the Heroes exhibition at Chapelle du Carmel, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2005
Shown at Fiac 05 and Zuerich 05:
'Bob George', 2004
'Julie', 2003
'Corre la voce', 2003
'L'arbuste épineux', (second night) 2003
"That night, the night before, the night after", 2003
... Gerald Petit's whole project is to test the modalities of appearence, generation and capture of images. For this he employs a range of media, tools and types of representation, resisting category. His analysis of image is founded in painting, traversing the permutations of painting's representative function. His photography spans a spectrum of styles and genres, from the conventions of portraiture to staged, fictive worlds. The enigma of identity acts as a unifying element in his work. There is something irreducible in art, historically, that is revealed in the form of constantly reformulated myth: the ambilavence of representation between veracity and illusion. The ultimate fantasy is to unfold and project on a character other than oneself. Much as oil on canvas, Gerald Petit's large photographic or murals explore this: who is the person represented? What secret does he keep?(…)
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