Leica Gallery Paris
From June 29 to August 26, 2023
Supernature is an imaginary safari that pays tribute to the power of nature beauty and poetry. A series in which animals evolve freely in an environment environment devoid of any human presence. Chromatic, dreamlike images conceived as tableaux offer a sublimated vision of a still untamed nature.
François Fontaine describes Supernature as an "imaginary safari". Taken with an analog Leica camera from wildlife documentaries, these photographs are film details. Like a hunter, he prepares his focus and chooses his moment, working instinctively in search of images he describes as "chromatic and dreamlike". Memories of vignettes, playing cards cards, illustrated books or comic strips, they seem to emanate from a half-awake child's dream. of a half-awake child.
After more than thirty years traveling the globe, the artist returns to explore the fantasies that inspired his tireless search for beauty and exoticism. Guided by his emotions, he captures the imaginary hidden in the folds of reality and its images. reality and its images. Over the years, he has perfected a shooting technique that gives his that gives his silhouettes the blurred quality of memories and wandering thoughts, and his photographs a pictorial texture.
Born in Paris in 1968, François Fontaine studied art history before devoting himself to his passion for travel and photography. He criss-crossed Southeast Asia, then lived in Spain, China, India, Japan and around the world, including Easter Island. Easter Island. Long thematic series with titles more poetic than documentary
documentary titles: Poésie urbaine, Les Fleurs de la nuit, Au fil du Mékong du Mékong, Lost in China, Silenzio! Mémoires de cinéma, Rêve d'Orient...
François Fontaine is represented by the Vu agency.
Leica Gallery Paris
26 rue Boissy d'Anglas
75008 PARIS
France
10.00 am to 7.00 pm