- BIOGRAPHY WRITTEN BY RICHARD VINE -
Emmanuelle Gauthier Born in 1971, Emmanuelle Gauthier is a French fine arts photographer who has lived and worked in New York since 1994. She studied photography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as film structure and production techniques at the Université de Paris VIII.
Her training also includes history of photography classes with George Pitts, the photo editor of Vibe magazine. Thereafter, working on independent productions, she assisted director Eric Ceret on his documentary Diaries and director Mark Humphrey on numerous music videos.
As a freelance photographer,Emmanuelle Gauthier has contributed to numerous publications such as
Citizen k, Spoon, Trace, Zing, The Fadder, Trax,Madame Figaro, Dazed & Confused, and Pure.
Among her commissions are ad campaigns for Audemars Piguet,Fred Sathal, and Totem.
Emmanuelle Gauthier’s images–of airports, clubs, city streets, and glamorous youths–often imbue their
subjects with a dreamy allure. Her figures smoke and drink in louche surroundings; some pose with clothes laid on top of their bodies rather than worn normally. All seem too hip for love or grief. Yet their bohemian chic is inseparable from a pervading sense of desolation–as if the emptiness of the jetways had entered every aspect of life for these young urban nomads.
Most recently, Emmanuelle Gauthier completed a compilation video of interviews with several New York-based artists with whom she has an aesthetic affinity: Andres Serrano, Dennis Oppenheim, Scott Hug,and others. Here scenes from the urban environment, including the living and working spaces of the artists, are punctuated by shots of a sleek building lobby and highly reflective revolving door*emblems, in effect, of the hardness, gloss, and transitoriness of life in New York*s often impersonal milieu.
Emmanuelle Gauthier has previously exhibited in New York City at Marcus Ritter Gallery, Nikolai Fine Art Gallery, Egizio’s project, Cynthia Broan galleries. And in Hong Kong at the Institute of Matter gallery.
Richard Vine
Editor at large at Art in America
Remy Toledo Gallery/Projects
is pleased to present an exhibition of three young artists
“Candy for Dinner”
Emmanuelle Gauthier, Vadis Turner, and Hu Ren Yi.
This dinner party has been cooked in America , China and France .
French photographer Emmanuelle Gauthier presents a different kind of candy, one of sweet seduction. In her latest series Plastic Baroque, techniques of digital manipulation create a refined and glamorous body of work. Layering lush imagery from European and American painting, Gauthier creates contemporary photographs of intricate beauty. Her composition is simultaneously dense and fluid with rich coloration and painterly quality as she explores favorite subjects in different hues. Creating a dreamy allure the images are charged with a Baroque sensibility, seducing the viewer with fairytale settings and subtle luminosity.
Vadis Turner exhibits cupcakes and a tea party constructed from kitchen materials and sewing goods. Influenced by generations of southern women who reigned in the kitchen and sparkled at society events. The immanent artist was expected to learn the ways of
a proper lady, folding her napkin properly and writing gracious thank you notes. Such traditions have been replaced by fast food and superficial entertainment, which becoming our legacy. Many now eat candy for dinner.
This exhibition will be the first viewing in New York of paintings by the young Chinese artist Hu Ren Yi. His candy color like paintings are cynical and playful with undertones of sexuality, family and politics. They are constructed simply, although the concept is much deeper than what physically appears on the surface of the canvas. The viewer is engaged by the dream like quality of the images. There is an obvious influence of the tradition of Chinese painting that merges with the contemporary.
Barbara Braathen Curator, Art Dealer
Emmanuelle Gauthier’s work has an ethereal and
atmospheric quality, with a delicate sensitivity to
light which creates a mysterious and stagelike
effect on reality.
Irene Nikolai
Nikolai Fine Art Gallery
Artist Statement
“Interventions”
Video art together with photography examine the
parallels and liaison between history and truth. The
two mediums address issues of misinterpretations,
miscommunications and language barriers .
Other themes such as life and death, human rights and
the rights of animals are very close to my mission of wanting to make a positive changein our life and, give back to this world elements of beauty and wonder.
Characterized by a visionnary force, the works traces a
sense of tragedy and fragility. Inspired, intricately
and sensuously styled, the art video titled “Lace” presents lustrous images voluntarily slowed down: capturing and contemplating the moment…all in a surreal film speed. It translates dreamy and eery qualities to movement decomposition and into a different environmental transposition.
Against a curtain of violent rupture/ isolation, and a
will for using art as an export for social progress
and awareness, the images’ aesthetics import a wide
range of poetic interpretations.
Experiencing with new software techniques and digital
interventions the photography juxtapositions or layers
deepens and twists meanings.
The moving images are mixed in with music composed
with fragmented sample sources running across
cultures, time and sensibilities. The piece highlights
and emphasizes the importance of cultural differences,
the richness and depth of cross cultural exchanges as
well as tolerance, and dignity.
Emmanuelle Gauthier
NYC, 2006
-ARTIST STATEMENT -
I have always been interested in exploring the
juxtaposition and convergence of illusion and reality.
My photography and film incorporate many references:
video, music, cinematographic special effects, set
design, architecture, poetry and reverie. I’m
interested in linear readings as well as the
possibilities of subjective reinterpretations of
events that have shaped our realities.
Luminous and ethereal the images are charged with a
sense of longing, hope and a dreamy allure. Vibrancy
of color imbue the photographs with a warm and sublime
glow. In my process I embrace surrealistic techniques
and theories.
Filmmaker’s Luis Bunuel and Jean Cocteau have informed
and inspired my work. Through my films and
photography, I capture the intimate beauty of the
details of life exploring the interconnections and the
fragility of existence.
Emmanuelle Gauthier, New York City,2004
- Aesthetics of Belonging -
Curated by Kasia Kay- Scope Artfair- NYC 2007-
Layered and complex ideas of gender, identity, belonging, sexuality and intimate narratives are explored in selected artworks. Presented here short-films examine issues of relationships, the construction of female and her belonging to society, and in relationship.Few works with focus on aesthetics of belonging to space, allude to notions of absence and presence, a sense of place and of no place, volume and void, notions of home, as well as personal freedom and belonging to a pre-constructed world. Artists included: Kristin Anderson, Sandra Bermudez, Emmanuelle Gauthier, David A. Parker, Nick & Shelia Pye, Alicja Karska and Aleksandra Went, and Chris Wasko.
Did you see the friedlander show? your (trailer)
reminded me of depardons and van der keukens new
york (scans), i.e. images through sounds or sounds
through images. which is good (legacy).. cd
Chris Dercon – TATE MUSEUM Director London
