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Philippe Calandre (born 1964) is a French artist who combines photography, painting, and video. [1]
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Philippe Calandre (born 1964) is a French artist who combines photography, painting, and video. [1]
Calandre was born in Avignon, France in 1964. By the age of 16, Calandre was able to work for two years as a shipman.
While taking a mundane portrait shoot, he came to the realization that what he was observing through his lens appeared to be more captivating to him than in actuality. It was at this moment that he realized he was meant to be an artist.[ citation needed ]
Over several years, he split his time between personal research, which had him globetrotting from Bolivia to Russia, and his work as a photographer in the press. [ citation needed ]
After two exhibitions in Paris and Beirut, a Parisian gallery, Zabriskie, decided to include his work alongside those of Weegee and Leonard Freed as part of its « Une nuit, un voleur » series (in 1996). A few years later, the National Fund for Contemporary Art acquired ‘Ghost Stations’, a series depicting abandoned gas stations that the artist came upon during his highway rambling. [ citation needed ]
Calandre is particularly interested in architectural photography and still life. In all his series of photographs, what he views as 'reality' serves as the foundation from which he creates his worlds where an ambiguity exists between the real and the imagined settles in. [ citation needed ]
His studies often were used as a springboard to highlight everyday architectural aspects, pulled from their daily lifelessness and given life. Gas stations, then his ‘silos’, which were presented at FIAC in 2001 by Anne Barrault, the Parisian gallery, with whom the artist collaborated from 1999 to 2007, were lifted to the realm of the supernatural. [ citation needed ]
For ‘Insomnia’ (2006), which depicts strange nocturnal apparitions, Calandre plunges into the world of the fantastic with his pure and spooky scenes.
From 1996, his various series have been displayed in galleries, museums, and contemporary art shows in France and abroad from Greece to Argentina to the Netherlands and back to New York and Taiwan. [ citation needed ]
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