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Jean-Marc Bustamante (1952, IT)

Artist Rank (2007): 283 –

Most exhibitions in:
France	24

Most exhibitions with:
Name	Rank	№
Thomas Ruff	25	20
Rodney Graham	64	14
Günther Förg	71	12
Thomas Struth	48	11
Andreas Gursky	17	11

Works of art

"Blackstones", ink on plexiglass, 195 x 147 cm. (Bus 56)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Palissades", 195 x 147 cm, Ink on Plexiglas. (Bus 58)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Palissades", 195 x 301,5 cm, each panel 195 x 100,5 cm, Ink on Plexiglas. (Bus 62)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Coridon", 195 x 147 cm, Ink on Plexiglas. (Bus 59)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Plante mauve", 195 x 147 cm, Ink on Plexiglas. (Bus 61)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Nègre nu", 195 x 147 cm, Ink on Plexiglas. (Bus 60)

2007

Galerie Vera Munro

"Pas de deux", Silkscreen on plexiglas, 145 x 228 cm. Edition 3 + 1 Ap. (Bus 45)

2004

Galerie Vera Munro

"Lumière 3", screen print under plexiglass, 140 x 190 x 5 cm, 5/5

2003

Galerie Sollertis

"Lumière 03.03", Silkscreen on plexiglas, 140 x 199 cm. Edition 4/5. (Bus 50)

2003

Galerie Vera Munro

"Silkscreen on plexiglas Panorama (Satin I)", 150 x 226 x 4 cm. Edition 3 + 1 Ap. (Bus 40)

2000

Galerie Vera Munro

"Panorama (never-the-less)", Silkscreen on plexiglas, 155 x 234 x6 cm. Edition 3 + 1 Ap. (Bus 38)

2000

Galerie Vera Munro

"Regrets", Color on steel, 150 x 150 x 50 cm. (Bus 02)

1991

Galerie Vera Munro

"Trophée O´", ink on plexiglas, 128 x 107 x 4 cm

Galerie Vera Munro

Biography

courtesy: www.artefrance.fr

1952
Born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne (IT)
Jean-Marc Bustamante has been working intermittently on a series of photographic projects since 1977. His first series of works, titled ´Tableaux´, made between 1977 and 1982 are large color prints of semi-urban sites around Barcelona, taken in areas which he selected precisely because they were derelict and without interest: areas ´where there has been a lot of destruction, where nature is no longer wild´. The series includes more than 120 individual landscapes, photographs that are fragments but aspire to a whole, banal subjects which are classically composed but also reminiscent of commercial advertising.

In 1995 Bustamante started a new body of works titled ´Something is Missing´; these photographs were exhibited in groups of between 2 and 12 images. They claim no reference to specific locations or chronology, which obliges the viewer to find ways into the work at a forensic level, in the hope that the work itself will provide all the information. Most of the time his work is about piecing together, about scooping knowledge out of the slightly familiar. What is missing is frequently as important as what is included, though there is usually a nagging familiarity about something in the work. Often there is a no-man´s land of indeterminate foreground that may appear random, but which actually acts as a precise clue to the importance of the work´s framing and composition.
Lives and works in Paris (FR)

Public exhibitions 91