The Nathalie Obadia and Daniel Templon galleries are presenting a group of works by Jean-Marc Bustamante from December 1st. These exhibitions, in two distinct spaces, allow a historical work to coexist with other recent ones.
They reflect, once again, the importance for the artist of the crossroads and the echo of different mediums since sculptures, photographs and "Panoramas" are exhibited. It is a real journey, an experience of the look, which is desired here by J.M. Bustamante.
This same experience was the subject of a previous large-scale exhibition at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg last spring.
At Galerie Nathalie Obadia, a historic work, never before shown in France, is exhibited: "Continent n°V", 1993. Wool carpet and PVC plastic make up this sculpture. The PVC part is an atypical figure, a sort of territory, a region, a geography, placed on the wool carpet, not completely unrolled, which opens up a possible extension of the surface...
At Daniel Templon's, the exhibition is composed of photographs taken last summer during a trip the artist made to Japan.
These neutral images, sharp from the foreground to the farthest, show undefined places, between city and countryside, a kind of "no man's land" dear to the artist.
The photographs have a surprisingly long format (240 x 160 cm) and their composition is once again in line with his interests: to get out of the identification of the subject, a place situated between the "finished-not-finished", no privilege of point of view, research of what is permanent in the landscape.
Sculptures are also present, they are glass tables crossed by colored candles that are either whole or cut into layers and superimposed on each other. As in some "Panoramas" we notice holes that let appear the surrounding space
Finally, two "Panoramas", large Plexiglas made from abstract drawings on paper, then silk-screened on the support, are also exposed. They are situated between the pictorial gesture, the sculptural object and the photographic snapshot.