Jacques Bodin high resolution painting
Jacques Bodin, painter, lives and works in Levallois Perret near Paris.
He is one of the main representant of european hyperrealism.
The paintings, are executed from his own photos modified with numeric tools.
His paintings accentuate photographic deviations from reality (depth of field, wide angle, lighting, and focus anomalies) to create a hyperrealism reference.
Subject matter includes extreme closeup views of exacting images cast in shadow through reflective lighting.
The apparent hyperrealistic frontality of the foregrounds is compared with the diffuse aspect of the backgrounds in which we can see vanishing lines which break up the graphic organization of the canvas.
His work explores diverse subject themes such as grass, fruits, hair, trees and vegetation and is organized in the manner in which he captures his subjects and depicts them with meticulous attention. Approaching minimalism, some of the works embark on a conceptual aspect of hyperreality.
He has been in numerous gallery shows and his work has been featured in many books.
He is represented by Plus One gallery in London.
Research of perfection during execution contains itself a message. It is perhaps this passage of time which gives a metaphysical dimension to hyperrealism.
Rivoli Genève
The wander of giving the eye what it can’t see. -
The frayed segments that protrude from the wound threads of a ball of string, the luminous transparency of the glass bottle that reflects, deformed, the architecture of the room and the brilliant, compelling colors of the fruit in the basket, the strands of tall, dry grass that decorate the back of a woman like a tattoo…
With Jacques Bodin every feature is perfectly visible in a bracing sharpness, from the wrinkled but shiny peel of the oranges to their inner white spongy part, to the pulp of which we see the juice that raises it; from the transparent drops of dew worn by a stem of grass like a jewel, to the veins of ivy enveloping around a lying trunk, to a tuft of grass that the wind combs as if it were hair.
The wander lies in giving the eye much more than it can see.
As Picasso said, “realism is the impossible”.
A mysterious, paradoxical phrase, explained by the literary critic Walter Siti. The world, the reality, is too vast and too complex to be dominated by our gaze. To succeed, the realistic painters divide it into small parts to study them in detail. If we want the precision of the detail, it is impossible to have the whole of the real.
Looking at hyper - realistic works of art, many wonder what sense it has to realize them. We all, in fact, have more or less sophisticated technical tools to photograph the world and ourselves. It is a well - founded question.
Nowadays we do not choose a smart-phone for its basic technical property of calling and receiving calls, but for the additional features of taking high resolution photos and video pictures. Snapping photos has become a sort of nervous habit, a tic, a compulsive behavior. Our subjects are barely able to show our special look of the world around us. In a museum, for example, our biggest task is to take pictures of the paintings, installations and sculptures even when it is prohibited.
Nevertheless the process of creating art proves to be unpredictable. One of the most exciting questions of contemporary art is to ask oneself if something has been photographed or hand painted. This fascinating doubt is the sign of a challenge between creation and reproduction.
Realism is a technique to learn more about the world, not through mere imitation nor through the reproduction of things, but through their analytical remaking by our own hands. Bodin wants to be the soil that makes the grass grow, and the dew that quenches it in the morning.
Cristina Muccioli
Art critic, curator and lecturer
Artist:
Jacques Bodin
Jacques Bodin, painter, lives and works in Levallois Perret near Paris.
He is one of the main representant of european hyperrealism.
The paintings, are executed from his own photos modified with numeric tools.
His paintings accentuate photographic deviations from reality (depth of field, wide angle, lighting, and focus anomalies) to create a hyperrealism reference.
Subject matter includes extreme closeup views of exacting images cast in shadow through reflective lighting.
The apparent hyperrealistic frontality of the foregrounds is compared with the diffuse aspect of the backgrounds in which we can see vanishing lines which break up the graphic organization of the canvas.
His work explores diverse subject themes such as grass, fruits, hair, trees and vegetation and is organized in the manner in which he captures his subjects and depicts them with meticulous attention. Approaching minimalism, some of the works embark on a conceptual aspect of hyperreality.
He has been in numerous gallery shows and his work has been featured in many books.
He is represented by Plus One gallery in London.
Research of perfection during execution contains itself a message. It is perhaps this passage of time which gives a metaphysical dimension to hyperrealism.
BIOGRAPHY
2023
Hyper 23, Musée Photobastei, Zurich
Plus One gallery, London
Galerie Le Cactus bleu, Reugny
Eglise Saint Florentin, Amboise,
Levallart, Levallois Perret,
L’Hyperréalisme, Mairie de Levallois Perret
2022
Galerie Le Cactus bleu, Reugny
Eglise Saint Florentin, Amboise
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2021
Jacques Bodin, Peintures autour de Courçay, salle polyvalente Courçay
20x20, Arte Libre galeria
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2020
Transperceptions, Institut culturel bulgare
Ceci n'est pas une photo, Hotel de Ville , Levallois Perret
20x20, Arte Libre galeria
Algo mas que realismo, Zarragossa
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2019
20x20, Arte Libre galeria, Zarragosse
20x20, Arte Libre galeria,MEAM, Barcelone
Algo mas que realismo, Zarragossa
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2018
Plus One gallery, Hyperrealism, Museo del tabac, Andorre
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong Art fair
State of the Arts gallery, Singapore Art fair
Galerie atelier Saint Honoré, Hyperréalisme, Paris
Réel abstrait, Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris
Algo mas que realismo, Zarragossa
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2017
La nature abstraite de la réalité, Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris
Algo mas que realismo, Zarragossa
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2016
Algo mas que realismo, Zarragossa
Verité vraie, Le réalisme à travers la peinture contemporaine, Xun art gallery, Pékin, Shijiazhuang
Plus One gallery, London
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2015
Galerie Anna Tshopp, Marseille
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong
Plus One gallery, London
Levallart, Levallois Perret
2014
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong
Plus One gallery, London
2013
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong
Galerie By the Arts, Paris
2012
State of the Arts gallery, Hong Kong
2011
Rarity gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Silas Marder gallery, Bridgehampton, USA
2010
Galerie Anna Tschopp, Marseille, France
2009
Galerie Lebreton, Pont Aven, France
2006
Galerie Catherine et Andre Hug, Paris, France
Galerie Suty, Coye La Forêt, France
Galerie Whitfield, Mexico
2005
Galerie Catherine et Andre Hug, Paris, France
Galerie Suty, Coye La Forêt, France
Galerie Whitfield, Mexico
1997
Itinéraires Levallois Perret
1991
Espace Michel Simon, Noisy le Grand
1990
France Japon Tokyo
Galerie Caplain Matignon, Paris
1988
Shémas Images Acropolis Nice
1987
Portes et portiques, Château de Sceaux
1984
Musée château de Nointel
Les 92 du 92 Boulogne Billancourt
1983
Musée château de Nointel
1981
Octogone, Paris
Mairie de Boulogne Billancourt
1980
Espace Cardin, Paris
1978
Espace Cardin, Paris
1996 à 2003
Salon d'Automne, Grand palais, Paris
1978 à 1995
Salon Comparaisons, Grand palais, Paris 1981 à 1995
Salon Figuration critique, Grand palais, Paris
1980 à 1982
Salon de Montrouge
1978 à 1990
Salon Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, Grand palais, Paris
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hyperrealism Magazine, june 2022 p.36-47
Je découvre l'Art Moderne, Editions Amalthée, may 2022
Hiperrrealism, Museo del Tabac, Andorra, 2018
Poets and Artists, Glorious color, june 2018
Hyperrealism Magazine, january 2018
Arte y Libertad XI, Arte Libre, november2017
Jacques Bodin, Didi Menendez, Poets and artists, july 2017
Vérité vraie, Le réalisme à travers la peinture contemporaine, Feng Liu éditeur, 2016
Arte y Libertad X, Arte Libre, november2016
Art's Vice, march 2016
Jacques Bodin Paintings, 2014, hyperrealism.net ed.
Poets and Artists, february 2014
Splux, Japan, august 2012
Art croissance, septembre 2012
Arte y Libertad V, Arte Libre, 2011
Poets and Artists, february 2010
Public Art, january 2010
Nature art today, 2010, E. Patou ed.
Dessins et Peintures, january 2010
Poets and Artists, december 2009
Jacques Bodin Paintings, 2009, hyperrealism.net ed.
Peinture et photographie, J. L. Chalumeau, 2088
