Stéphane Couturier - Photographs London Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Polaris, Paris
    Private Collection, Europe

  • Catalogue Essay

    “Couturier’s images play with this opposition between general composition and sense of detail, between view of the whole and close-up reading. The gap, indeed the dislocation introduced by detail, is rendered even more evident and effective in the large format images, but the play between the plausible and theimplausible doesn’t come about in the same way. In the series before Melting Point, once beyond a first general impression of acceptance of the image, the gaze of the spectator was distracted, drawn, by a multitude of details, of distorted prospective, of trompel’oeil games, that spread doubt on the realist and mimetic nature of the whole and forced upon the spectator a mental exercise of reconstruction of the image and its internal logic.”

    (Quentin Bajac, Chandigarh replay, Stephane Couturier, Paris: Editions Ville Ouverte, 2007, p. 54)

94

Séoul #2 from Monuments

1999
Dye destruction triptych, Diasec mounted.
(i) and (iii) 200 × 125 cm (78 3/4 × 49 1/4 in); (ii) 200 × 103 cm (78 3/4 × 40 1/2 in); overall: 200 × 353 cm (78 3/4 × 138 7/8 in)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on the reverse of panel number 2. One from an edition of 5.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Photographs

8 November 2012
London