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Martin d’Orgeval
Pâques
“I am everywhere, in the ocean which is my blood, in the hills which are my bones.” August Strindberg
“I travelled to Easter Island in the winter. In July. The isolation, the climate and the elements as well as the statues, all
created an oppressive atmosphere that is a long way from the tourist images. I wanted to face that, to grasp this uneasy
mixture through my own contemplation. This book is above all an inner narrative.
I walk, looking at the ground, photographing what is around me, what is given. No arranging, no composing. I record the
signs offered by the landscape. Clues. They are like an image of my unease. Language of stones, of water, of earth,
planar writing. Note it down, gather a vocabulary out of natural elements and human traces.
Solitary objects, away from the world. Metaphors of torment. Found forms, ready-made sculptures. Born of time, of
erosion, of rainwater, of atrophy. The work of the wind and water on volumes and surfaces. The forms of my sensations.
A book made up of surfaces. Pages of matter. Fragments. The texture of a rock resonates in me like the vibration of a
string. Roughness, buzzing, racket or, soon, respiration, silence, emptiness. I photograph the permanent. What has
always been and will always be; what is constant.” Martin d’Orgeval
Martin d’Orgeval was born in Paris in 1973, and lives and works in the city. While preparing a thesis in art history at the
Sorbonne about Hans Arp, he worked as the assistant of François-Marie Banier, organising several of his exhibitions
and editing many of his books, including Perdre la tête at the Villa Medici, Rome, in 2005 (Steidl). Pâques is his first
exhibition and first book.
Co-published with Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome.
Martin d’Orgeval
Pâques
Essay by Martin d’Orgeval
Book design by Martin d’Orgeval, Gerhard Steidl and Claas Möller
120 pages with 66 tritone plates
7.25 x 9.25 in. / 18.5 x 23.5 cm
Softcover
US $ 28.00 / £ 14.50 / R 20.00
ISBN 3-86521-262-X
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-262-7
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