Eric Poitevin

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Eric Poitevin was born in 1961 in Longuyon (France), lives and works in Mangiennes. Resident of the Villa Médicis in 1989-1990.

 

Whether he focuses on the faces of World War I veterans (1985), dead deer (1995), skulls and butterflies (1994), undergrowth (1995), horse hindquarters (1999-2000), or fragments of human bodies (2001), Eric Poitevin’s photographs are the result of progressive decision-making. Sometimes requiring months of waiting for the subject of the photograph to be constituted as he wishes, he then meticulously constructs his image. The light, sometimes natural, is often the subject of real work. This is the case for the series of skulls or animals presented on a black background. A way to isolate them completely and to stop them. The frame – he chooses his wood, makes it and assembles it – and the framing, which despite the off-camera does not allow any extrapolation, any escape, are for him perhaps the same thing. “The frame is a way of highlighting the photographic framing, it is a setting, a protection, a border, a staging”. Light, format, paper and framing must thus respond to the density and fragility of each subject represented.

 

Eric Poitevin photographs beings or places that are in danger of disappearing because they carry a load of time and experience that is about to dissipate. In his work, everything remains in suspense and what certainly holds our attention is this absence of a definite temporality, this invitation to reflect.

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    Eric Poitevin

    SAISON D'ART 2023/2024 : CHAUMONT-PHOTO-SUR-LOIRE

    18 November 2023 – 25 February 2024 18.11.2023 – 25.02.2024
    Domaine de Chaumont-Sur-Loire, 41150 Chaumont-Sur-Loire, France

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    Eric Poitevin

    20 April 2022 – 28 August 2022 20.04.2022 – 28.08.2022
    Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon

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    NEW CATALOG - Servez citron

    4 June 2020 – 31 December 2020 04.06.2020 – 31.12.2020
    Un ensemble de photographies par Éric Poitevin d’assiettes desservies chez Troisgros, accompagné des recettes afférentes, piqué de Restes de table, un essai par Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, aux Éditions Macula.

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    UPLIFT

    20 March 2020 – 2 May 2020 20.03.2020 – 02.05.2020
    Xippas geneva, Geneva (CH)

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    Salon des Multiples

    14 February 2020 – 16 February 2020 14.02.2020 – 16.02.2020
    Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels (BE)

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    Eric Poitevin

    Passion, Bilder von der Jagt – curated by Peter Egloff and Stephan Kunz

    22 June 2019 – 27 October 2019 22.06.2019 – 27.10.2019
    Bundner Kunstmuseum, Chur (CH)

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    dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

    8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019
    dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

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    Le Choix d'Albert

    17 May 2019 – 29 June 2019 17.05.2019 – 29.06.2019
    Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)

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    VERSAILLES – VISIBLE / INVISIBLE DOVE ALLOUCHE, NAN GOLDIN, MARTIN PARR, ERIC POITEVIN, VIVIANE SASSEN

    14 May 2019 – 20 October 2019 14.05.2019 – 20.10.2019
    Château de Versailles, Versailles (FR)

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    Eric Poitevin

    Expo Biarritz, 1918-2018

    7 July 2018 – 3 September 2018 07.07.2018 – 03.09.2018
    Le Bellevue – Place Bellevue, Biarritz (FR)

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    FLOWERS

    19 May 2018 – 15 July 2018 19.05.2018 – 15.07.2018
    FLOWERS, Albert Baronian - Yoko Uhoda Knokke, Knokke (BE)
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    Il Terzo Giorno

    20 April 2018 – 1 July 2018 20.04.2018 – 01.07.2018
    Palazzo del Governatore, Parma

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    Eric Poitevin

    11 January 2018 – 4 March 2018 11.01.2018 – 04.03.2018
    Rasson Art Gallery, Tournai

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