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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont |
Year | 2006 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | English, French |
Note | Limited edition of 2.000 copies |
ISBN | 978-2-912303-23-3 |
Pages | 80 |
Weight | 682 g |
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Author(s) | Catherine Millet |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris |
Article ID | art-64308 |
The 23 portraits of women of this series, realized in 2005 and exhibited at the gallery in 2006, are those of 23 women with an off-beat beauty, photographed in a very sober setting, almost monochromatic grey, with a stone/base as only relief; a stone with which the models had to compose on the artist’s demand: “it is your stone, it is all what is left to you in the world…”
This new series marks the accomplishment of Bettina Rheims’ deep desire to establish a link with sculpture in its photographic creation, translating the idea that “one could see the back of the people that one sees facing”; like if suddenly the portrayed models were visualized in 3D.
Being raised among works of art, the artist was stunned by the look at antique marbles, of Michelangelo’s Slaves in the Offices Gallery in Florence, by Rodin’s bronzes, wherein bodies seem to burst out of the stone, a gush that she intended to transcribe in this series of photos.
Bilingual French & English text by Catherine Millet, chief editor of the magazine Art Press, and author of the book La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (The sexual life of Catherine M.), who has introduced a new and very different form of erotic writing.