Jean Luc Tartarin
Artiste
Jean Luc Tartarin est né à Metz en 1951. Il vit et travaille dans la proche région de Metz. Autodidacte, il est lauréat du Prix Niepce en 1971. En 1972, à l’école des Beaux Arts de Metz, il devient le premier professeur de photographie dans une école d’art en France, fonction qu’il a occupé jusqu’en 2013.
Engagé dès le début des années 1970 dans une pratique artistique, où le médium photographique est exploré dans ses multiples facettes, dont la forêt, les arbres, deviennent le sujet de prédilection qui se construit dans la proximité du territoire de l’enfance.
FIGURES FLEURS FORÊTS
Jean Luc Tartarin
Jean Luc Tartarin borrows from the history of photography images that he will reproduce in a file which he calls «first» and from which he can experiment with different interventions until obtaining the works he considers to be finished.
When he grabs an old photograph, of argentic nature, once scanned, it becomes like a negative. The raw file, of a particular nature, allows Jean Luc Tartarin to undertake a work of construction of a new image in a kind of digital alchemy.
After this long work of invention, mixing pleasure and struggle with virtual matter, the final file will be embodied in the materiality of a print on chromogenic paper.
In its work process, the table must not allow to perceive the pixels of which the image is made. Only materials, such as a painted painting, must be visible.
The book is organized around three great iconographic sets: figures, flowers and forests. The latter subject has always been important in the photographic research that the artist has been conducting for more than fifty years.
FIGURES FLEURS FORÊTS
24 x 28 cm, 224 pages, about 160 reproductions in four colours, cover bound full paper with marking, jacket printed in four colours. English/French text. Interview with Héloïse Conésa.
Graphic design: Nicolas Pleutret
ISBN: 978-2-84314-111-9