Quatrième de couverture
Jean-Marc Bustamante began his photographic work in 1978 with the series Tableaux, and moved from there in to sculpture. Deliberately sticking to simple forms, well-defined themes and materials, he renews, re-erclivens the first, Most basic bodily and visual relations that one experiences before a piece of art. At the saure tune, his work leads directly up to the present, what does it mean for us to perceive, ponder, or incorporate an image or a sculpture today? The essays in this volume, covering the work created to this date, discuss the role of photography in contemporary art, the duality of sculpture in its optical/tactile relations to the viewer's body, the ideas of landscape, architectural space, and the place of the work. Together they attempt to define the mufti-form notion of "presence" formulated by Bustamante.
L'auteur vu par l'éditeur
Christine Marcel - Curator of the French National Patrimony, art critic, regular contributor to the journal Parachute.
Marc Perelman - Architect by training, he has also completed a thesis in philosophy - Du corps à l architecture. Génèse et structure de l'ordre visuel moderne. Author of a work devoted to the "critical theory" of Le Corbusier's projects (Éditions de la Passion, 1986), he has just published Construction du corps, fabrique de l'architecture (Éditions de la Passion, 1986).
Jacinto Lageira - French art critic, has recently contributed to the catalogues Richard Artschwager, (Fondation Cartier, 1994), Jean-Marc Bustamante (Musée de Rochechouart/Kunsthalle de Berne 1994), as well as the volume devoted to the Canadian filmmaker, Atour Egoyan (Dis Voir, 1993).
