Jean-Marc Bustamante

Jean -Marc Bustamante ( born 1952 in Toulouse ) is a French painter, sculptor and photographer.

Life

Jean -Marc Bustamante studied business before, for which he worked with the support of the still life photographer Denis Brihat and William Klein as an assistant, who turned Photography.

In 1983 he met the sculptor Bernard Bazile, with whom he worked for three years and exhibited under the pseudonym Community Bazilebustamante.

Bustamante currently teaches at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts in Paris in multimedia.

In April 2010 he was appointed to the chair of painting and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Work

Jean -Marc Bustamante's work is characterized by an exchange between sculpture, painting and photography, in which he mainly devoted his attention to photography. In his " Photographic images ", he tries to bring together these different media, thus changing our perception of these media.

In 1978 he began to create large-format color photographs, which he titled Tableaux. He was known primarily for his incurred in the suburbs of Barcelona pictures that illustrate the space of the city limits.

More recently, he preferred plexiglass as an image carrier. His interest is especially the color.

In 2003, the artist designed the pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

Exhibitions

Jean -Marc Bustamante is since 1977 regularly in European galleries (France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Austria ... ). He showed his works in the United States and Canada (from 1993), in Japan ( as of 1994 ) and in Israel ( 1997).

Noteworthy is the great exhibition of 2006 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, where Jean -Marc Bustamante occupied four floors and outside of the museum building created a light installation, as well as his collaboration with the American artist Ed Ruscha for the exhibition L'horizon chimérique at the Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg.

The following is a selection of his exhibitions ( See also: Jean -Marc Bustamante: Exhibitions )

1977

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante Critiques / Images. Art in action, gallery Municipale du Château d' Eau, Toulouse

1987

1989

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, catalog, text by Alain Cueff and Ulrich Loock

1990:

  • Bustamante, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
  • Paysage, intérieurs, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1992

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • Documenta IX, Kassel

1993

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago ( traveling exhibition: Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, catalog, text by Jean -François Chevrier )
  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, Tableaux 1978-1982, Musée de Rochechouart departmental, catalog, 1994, text by Jacinto Lageira

1994

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante Tableaux & stationnaire, fund régional d'art contemporain Languedoc- Roussillon, Galerie d' Eole, Montpellier
  • Tableaux 1978-1983, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, catalog, text by Jacinto Lageira
  • Un monde à la fois, Synagogue, Delme
  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, Un monde à la fois, L'aquarium, Ecole des Beaux- Arts de Valenciennes

1995

  • Serena, sculpture park at the Kröller -Müller Museum, Otterlo

1996

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, catalog

1997

  • Documenta X, Kassel

1998

1999

  • Retrospective de l' œuvre photographique, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

2000

2001

2003

  • Pavillon français, 50th Venice Biennale

2006

  • Beautifuldays, Kunsthaus Bregenz
  • Beau fixe Musée d' Art Moderne Saint -Etienne Métropole, Saint- Étienne ( 18 May to 23 July 2006)

2007

  • L'horizon chimérique joint exhibition with Ed Ruscha, Musée d' Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg.

Literature (selection )

  • Jean -Marc Bustamante (Paris: Flammarion, 2005).
William Klein (photographer) London Integrated Authority File
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