Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to organize Luc Delahaye's first solo exhibition in its Paris gallery.
From January 8 to March 5, 2011, Luc Delahaye will present ten new large-format photographs taken over the past four years.
Luc Delahaye's photographs, often taken in the theaters of current events, demonstrate an approach that is both direct and detached, and their narrative power is supported by the spectacular form of the large-scale painting. In this set of opposing forces, a knot of formal tensions, they invite the viewer to a distanced contemplation and lead him to a reflection on the relationship between art, information and history. By turns obvious and enigmatic, his work illustrates the Borgesian definition of the aesthetic fact: "the imminence of a revelation that does not happen".
The artist had not presented his work in France since 2005 and his exhibition at the Maison Rouge. A book, published by Steidl, accompanies the exhibition.
