Gilles Larrain

Gilles Larrain , initially painter, then pioneer of the Kinetic art, is currently Photographe New Yorkean, author of known posters of Miles Davis, Sting and Billy Joel. He also collaborated in magazines like Photo or Géo .

He photographed also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Jerry Rubin and El Salvador Dalí, and created covers of album for Sting, Miles Davis and Billy Joel.

An exposure of its works took place in Seville from September 19th to October 22nd, 2006.

Characteristic

Gilles Larrain always wanted to control the totality of the photographic chain, of the release to the darkroom , it wrote. Because of the work which it carried out during pulling, there do not exist two positive of him rigorously identical. He even declared a day that its negative did not contain work in itself, but just a raw material to carry it out .

Phrases often stated

" Photography is a means of putting questions and of finding some réponses".

Principal series

Idols, 1973 (Cockettes, gay action group)
Flamenco, 1983
Dark Angels, 1992 (homage to Kurosawa)
Twins, 2005 (the same model equipped and naked in the same position)
Diptychs, 2006 (couples of photographs having a joint element)

External bonds

The world off flamenco
Its site

Principal exposures

1966 Gilles Larrain - Southampton East Gallery, NYC, the USA - Paintings
1966 50 New York artists - Max' S Kansas City, NYC, the USA - Group show
1967 Light, Motion, Space - Walker Art Center - Mineapolis, MN - (First kinetic art exhibition in the USA) - Group show
1967 Luminism - The Artist Club - NYC, the USA - Group show - Kinetic dynamic Art
1967 Space in constant movement , 5th Biennial, Museum of Modern art of the Town of Paris, France
1968 Neon scuptures, I - Benson Gallery, Long Island, NY, the USA
1968 Scuptures Neon, II - Neue Kunst Museum - Munich, D
1968 6th Annual Avant-garde Festival , NYC, the USA
1969 Inflated Children' S Paintings , Shakespeare' S Theater, NYC, the USA
1969 Induction Public garden , Suffolk Museum, NYC, the USA
1969 Tubular , with François Dallegret, prices Levine, Museum of Modern art, Paris, France
1971 Art and technology , Center Sigma, Bordeaux, France - group show
1972 The objectifies eye , Galerie Baecker, Bochum, Germany
1973 world Exposition of photography , Hamburg, Germany - group show
1975 90 Black and White Prints , Palais of the Art schools, Brussels, Belgium - Group show
1975 Faces and Spaces , French Culture sections, Ambassade of France, NYC, the USA
1978 Portraits , The Harkness House Gallery, New York
1978 Portraits II , The Nary Center, Santa Cruz, CA, the USA
1980 I Sing The Body Electric', The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, Pa, the USA - Group show

1981 Interfaces , Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, the USA

1982 Interfaces , Wye Plantation, Aspen Institute, Queenstown, cd.

1982 Portraits , Agathe Gaillard Gallery, Paris, France

1983 Portraits , the Alliance Fran1caise, New York, the USA

1984 American Ballet Theater Photographs , Dyansen Gallery 57, NYC, the USA

1985 Tenth Birthday , Agathe Gaillard Gallery, France

1985 Art Werburg , Gallery Tabula, Tubingen, Germany

1987-1992 Body and Faces II', French Culture sections, Circulating show in the USA for 5 years.
1990-1991 Photo Icons , Meadows Museum, Dallas
1991 Photographers of the Gallery . Center Photography, Geneva, Suisse

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