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ART<br />

2<br />

1<br />

1. “Anna Ewers, Numéro”,<br />

2015, impression<br />

acrylique sur aluminium<br />

2. “Baptiste Giabiconi,<br />

Vogue Allemagne”, 2009,<br />

impression acrylique sur<br />

aluminium<br />

magnifié par des modèles comme Diane Kruger,<br />

Lou Doillon, Carole Bouquet, Carla Bruni ou<br />

encore Gwyneth Jones. Ses sépias colorisés de<br />

New York Facades et La Maison de Malaparte<br />

prennent une dimension nostalgique empreinte<br />

d’une érosion du temps<br />

lorsqu’il s’attaque aux<br />

versions masculin/<br />

féminin du Portait de<br />

Dorian Gray. Ses<br />

impressions acryliques<br />

sur toile en Hommage à<br />

Feininger, peintre et<br />

graveur allemand de la<br />

première moitié du XX e<br />

siècle, laissent éclater son<br />

goût pour la dérision et la mise en scène. Il y a<br />

bien sûr l’amoureux de la mode, mais aussi des<br />

livres, des grands textes, symbolisés par deux<br />

installations Daphnis et Chloé et Le Voyage<br />

d’Ulysse. Karl Lagerfeld, s’il reste accroché au<br />

présent, n’est jamais très loin du passé ; il dit<br />

“Je ne vois plus la vie<br />

sans ma caméra,<br />

comme s’il s’agissait<br />

d’un pinceau ou d’un<br />

crayon.”<br />

Demachy and Alvin Langdon Coburn. I find<br />

German photography from the 1920s, and all<br />

those who were influenced by it, such as Helmut<br />

Newton, Peter Lindberg or Ellen Von Unwerth,<br />

deeply moving.” Does he have a style? “I have no<br />

idea. I leave it to the visitor to tell me. I do not<br />

have one style but several, or none. You must<br />

never stay still, in life, fashion or photography.”<br />

Eric Pfrunder, co-curator of the exhibition with<br />

Gerhard Steidl, presents a dense palette of<br />

Lagerfeld’s photographic techniques.<br />

Photography,<br />

as if it were a<br />

brush or a pencil<br />

The visit begins with a<br />

selection of acrylic silk<br />

screen prints on Arches<br />

paper. These are both<br />

wistful and bright at the<br />

same time, and this effect<br />

is magnified by models such as Diane Kruger, Lou<br />

Doillon, Carole Bouquet, Carla Bruni and Gwyneth<br />

Jones. His colourised sepias of New York Façades<br />

and The Malaparte House take on a nostalgic<br />

dimension due to the erosion of time when he<br />

tackles masculine and feminine versions of The

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