Renan POLLES (1943-2019) Time, 2002 Colour print, signed and - Lot 179

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Renan POLLES (1943-2019) Time, 2002 Colour print, signed and - Lot 179
Renan POLLES (1943-2019) Time, 2002 Colour print, signed and dated lower right and numbered 4/XII. 41 x 31.6 cm. Son of the writer and bibliophile Henri Pollès, Renan Pollès was immersed in culture and words from an early age. At the end of his studies, it was finally on film sets that he blossomed as Director of Photography. In 1988 the filmmaker combined his taste for the 7th art and archaeology by directing Mythes & Mégalithes, which was followed by several other documentaries on art and myths. He is also the author of numerous articles on the subject, an essay (The Mummy of Cheops in Hollywood), numerous novels and collections of short stories. From mediums to mediums, the director and photographer is also a visual artist. Renan Pollès piles up, assembles and compresses small everyday artefacts: from cans to irons and animal carcasses, everything can become a vehicle of expression. This collection of small testimonies of consumer society, torn from their essential function, creates an artistic language by sublimating the commonplace and giving a mystical dimension to profane objects. Phenomena such as programmed obsolescence, or the relationship to finitude with plastic, Renan Pollès stages life and death and the sweet follies of the contemporary era. His series of photos Time, reinterprets the most famous front page of the eponymous tabloid, that of September 11, 2001. As for his vanities, a subtle mix between classical and contemporary canons, they highlight our way of understanding tradition and modernity, like a compendium of the world, or rather the compendium of an era. - 1990 - Les crimes de la chambre noire - Le Palace, Paris - 2002 - Coca-Collapse - Ozio, Paris - 2003 - [Untitled], Galerie R.A.M, Paris - 2004 - Lost Paradise - invited by Chayan Khoï, Paris - 2004 - Viaduc des arts - exhibition with Jean-François Buisson, Paris - 2004 - Fusion - collective exhibition - Galerie Natha
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