Jean-Marc Bustamante: Nouvelles Scènes

Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Jean-Marc Bustamante, the most influential and respected artist working in France today.
 
Representing France in this year’s Venice Biennale, Bustamante created the ‘Pavillon des Amazones’ and signalled a new direction in his work by introducing portraiture for the first time. Bustamante’s work since the early 1980s consists of non-specific landscapes and non-figurative drawings. Human presence, though intimated, has always been discreet, and usually notable for its absence. In contrast, the Pavilion of the Amazons showed sharply detailed portraits of young women caught in the landscape, and Lumière images of awkward teenagers at a party, silkscreened onto plexiglass.
 
In this exhibition of recent work, Bustamante will be showing these portraits and Lumières, as well as new sculptural compositions made specifically with the gallery space in mind. This is typical of Bustamante’s use of varying media and materials; he refuses to be labelled simply as a ‘photographer’ or ‘sculptor’. It is the visual connections between these seemingly diverse works that is important.
 
Active since the early 1980s, Jean-Marc Bustamante has been included in numerous international group exhibitions, including documenta VIII in 1987, documenta IX in 1992, documenta X in 1997. Major solo exhibitions have included Paysages, Intérieurs, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1990), A World at a Time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (1994), Lent retour, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1996), Something is Missing, Tate Gallery (1998), L’Oeuvre Photographique, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1999), Long-Playing, Diechtorhallen, Hamburg  (2001), Private Crossings, Yokohama Museum of Art (2002), CASA Salamanca (2003), Pavillon des Amazones, Venice Biennale (2003).