Credendo Vides 004, 2016

Jean-Michel Rousvoal  

Name of the series: Credendo Vides Limited edition of 7 copies in all formats. Pigment print on Awagami Unryu 55g paper Seal on the front Signed and numbered on the back Comes with certificate of authenticity. • Print 40x30 image format 30x21 cm mounted under wood frame (wenge or black) with glass and Marie-Louise. • 60x50 print image format 40x30 cm mounted under wood frame (wenge or black) with glass and Marie-Louise. • Print 80x60 image format 70x50 cm mounted under wood frame (wenge or black) with glass and Marie-Louise. Maximum size 140x150 cm Jean-Michel Rousvoal was born in Paris in 1967. He discovered photography as a teenager and decided to make it his profession. He graduated from the Louis Lumière national school. After ten years spent in a professional photographic laboratory, he created his studio in 1992 and began to collaborate with large companies. He also takes the time to forge his gaze, to educate his eye in contact with painting, photography ... A desire to see in order to be nourished by their history, their traditions and their symbols and which is gradually giving birth to a personal job. He presented his first large series “Credendo vides" in 2016 during an exhibition in his studio in Pontoise. In 2018, he was selected to participate in the European Festival of Nude Photography in Arles with his series “La Madeleine repentante". The Van Gogh space then allows it to fully deploy the scale of its large formats. The assumed pictorial character of some of his series with the setting in scene all in baroque luxuriance, strewn with references, invites us to cross the mirror of time, a time which stretches out and leaves its mark. The alchemy implemented also finds its source in the “black" of the silver laboratory, and thus extends to digital and pigment prints. If here photography plays with its limits in a symbolic profusion, other series focus on the body alone or on a landscape to capture the essential in a suspended moment of silence.