Pierre Gonnord_France
Born in 1963 in Cholet. Lives and works in Madrid since 1988.
'Murillo, Caravaggio and Velasquez instantly come to mind, but those looking at us are definitely witnesses of today, from Madrid and elsewhere.' Christian Lacroix
SOUS LA PEAU/UNDER THE SKIN
“The face, situated absolutely and decisively between presence and absence, between resemblance and difference, systematically triggers a complex meditation on being, ‘oneself’ and ‘the other’. And it is precisely here – on these crucial boundaries, and summoned to reveal the stripped-down resemblance – that we find Pierre Gonnord’s portraits: works thoroughly acquainted with the genealogy of the genre and called on to tackle the deep meaning a face can contain as an expression of the individual”.
“The people Gonnord records in his photos have always had some link or affinity: youth, lifestyles or trends, their profession or, now, a certain way of living on the fringes of the established order. But he, in contrast with the usual procedure, does not set about building the image of a group, does not seek to assert an accumulation of individualities as a collective identity. He lifts the individual out of the communal or the collective, and offers each subject self-representation.”
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