Jean Daviot
Jean Daviot (born February 20, 1962 in Digne , Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ) is a French artist. He lives and works in Paris .
life and work
He attended the art school at Villa Arson in Nice . Jean Daviot works with various artistic techniques: video , photography, painting, sound recordings and landscape actions. In 1984 he created a fictional character, the artist Walter Pinkrops. From 1994 he worked on ombrographies ; for this he took the imprints of faces and hands by photocopy, the traces of which he then transferred onto the canvas . Since 1999 he has been drawing the outlines of people who visit him in his studio: Les visiteurs du soi . The body and its shadow meet in the same form: "The form of the body is the body of form". In silence he questions the language of the hands: pictograms of a universal language. In Srevne , presented in 2006 as part of "la Force de l'art" at the Grand Palais in Paris, he played recordings of his voice: forwards, backwards, and double backwards, heard at the point, from the inside out and backwards the head. He shapes language like an object.
L'écart des mots is a photo series: Jean Daviot inserts words into landscapes, skies, cities, playing with their ambiguities and ambiguities. With Vherbe , he actually lets words grow in the landscape: letters made of grass and plants that can take up an area of several hundred meters. For example, MEmoiRE near the prehistoric cave of Pech Merle , ImaGinE on the grounds of Schloss Genshagen in Brandenburg or Lieu et lien in front of the Palais du Pharo in Marseille . Since 1995 he has been working on the digital paintings «Écritures de lumières». To do this, he uses a video camera like a brush: the procedure is deceptively simple, the camera speed is reduced when turning, then he points the lens at various light sources (sun, moon, Venus, Jupiter, or the light of cities at night) and transmits it this light by moving his hand onto his video camera. It is the light itself that is shown in color explosions, rays, vibrations and currents on the screen, the canvas and the wall.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philippe Lançon, Jean Daviot, Victoire Éditions, Paris, 1998.
- ↑ Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Jean Daviot Le ciel au bout des doigts, Paris Musées / Actes Sud, 2004
- ↑ Jeanette Zwingenberger , "l'écart des mots", interview with Jean Daviot, n ° 13, Images cachées, mai / juin / juillet, p. 86-89, Art Press, 2009
- ^ Evelyne Toussaint, Jean Daviot, Nowmuseum, 2013
- ↑ Receipt on the foundation's website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 24, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Daviot, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French contemporary artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Digne-les-Bains |