Jean-Marc Bustamante
Jean-Marc Bustamante, born in Toulouse in 1952, lives and works in Paris. His work combines sculpture, painting and photography, often inspired by architecture and landscape. Since the 1980s, Jean-Marc Bustamante has been experimenting with new techniques, such as large-format “photographic paintings” or his famous Lumières series, in which he printed black and white images on Plexiglas to explore light and transparency.
Jean-Marc Bustamante Editions
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L'Horizon Chimérique
2009
Deluxe edition: Case (black MDF) with two-sided plexiglass and silkscreen, 34.5 x 66 x 14 cm (13½ x 26 x 5½ in), with built-in book of same title and silkscreen insert, 28.5 x 57 cm, folded. Edition of 20, numbered, signed by both artists. (front and back view illustrated)
This edition by Ed Ruscha and Jean-Marc Bustamante consists of an object and an accompanying book. The title, L'Horizon Chimérique (Chimeric Horizon), alludes to the endlessly wide horizons in American widescreen films. The horizontal division of the surface into two zones serves as a semiotic archetype of the “landscape”. Two fields of color conjure a poetic sense of openness and vastness.
EUR 5,000
Trophée
2006
Published for Kunsthaus Bregenz
Screenprint on plexiglass, in lacquered iron frame, 60 x 50 x 4 cm (23¾ x 19¾ x 1½ in). Edition of 25, signed and numbered on label.
The title Trophée links a group of works for which the artist transferred drawings onto Plexiglas panels using screen printing. The flat picture surface is framed by a galvanized sheet of iron. For this edition, which we published for the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bustamante chose an animal motif that characteristically strikes a balance between a naturalistic form with recognition value and a purely abstract and confidently placed color symbol.
€ 2,200 € 1,320 / $1,600 shipping costs included
Lumière
2003
Published for the 50th Venice Biennale
Silkscreen behind acrylic glass, with metal brackets, 60 x 60 x 1 cm (23½ x 23½ x ¼ in). Edition of 50, signed and numbered on separate certificate.
This edition, Lumière, is a fragment of Bustamante’s large-size work of the same title that was shown in the "Pavilion of Amazones" in Venice. Derived from the internet and seemingly appearing out of the blue, this spectral image refers the viewer to a diffuse perception of the real, existing somewhere between photography and painting – an ambiguous appearance projected against the wall.
EUR 2,700
