The work of Eric Bourret will be presented by the Gallery Hazard during JoburgArtFair from 9 to 11 September 2016 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg.
As the first international art fair on the continent, the FNB JoburgArtFair plays a pivotal role in supporting the contemporary arts landscape in Africa.
The Fair provides a space for leading artists, galleries, collectors, writers, thinkers and art lovers to congregate
 

About Eric BOURRET :

Eric Bourret was born in Paris in 1964. He lives and works in the south of France and the Himalayas.



Eric Bourret's pictures are printed on Canson® Infinity Rag Photographique 310g

The work of this "artist walker" has been influenced by English land artists and landscape photographers. Since the start of the 1990s, he has been traveling the world on foot, over every kind of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as "experiences of walking, experiences of the visible". He talks about the potential that walking represents for sensory and physical transformation: "It heightens one's attention and receptiveness to landscape."
 
Bourret's expeditions can last for anything from a week to several months. But he always applies the same protocol. He superimposes a number of views of each scene so that the geological and human time scales merge. With the multiple reiterations of the initial image, a part of it disintegrates on the surface of the film before taking concrete form. The final result represents a summation of different memories into a "temporal layering" that is vibrant, oscillatory, almost animated.The practice of "walking photography" can also take the measure of a landscape, and of walking itself, in sequences of images that are more factual, with the insertion of dates and places, distances and durations.
These images can be seen as aesthetic attestations, or as unusual, sensorial complexes of rhythmic qualities. At the same time, they comprise a distinctive repository of subjective experience. As Bourret himself says: "I'm made up of the landscapes I traverse, and which also traverse me. I see photographic images as receptacles of form, energy and sense."

Since 1990, Bourret's work has been exhibited in and acquired by many museums and art centers in Europe, United States and Africa. He has participated in the Paris Photo art fair, as well as the 2015 Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Mora.


 

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Address :
Joburg ArtFair 2016
Contemporary African Art
Sandton Convention Centre     
161 Maude St, Sandton, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa