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Paul Vinet born in 1969, lives in Paris. He holds degrees in graphic design and Art History and Museology from the Louvre.
He has been working as a photographer for the past 10 years.
In the series “Learning from New York”, 2000, he presents a new vision of the city through the unusual technique of painting on photographs.
The artist creates a surprisingly different perspective of New York by removing its commercial imagery.
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His white painted geometric shapes make the advertisements that form the city's backdrop more conspicuous with their absence. These artificial open spaces change our relationship to New York's architecture and its urban ambiance. Signs are our visual guides, and removing them makes us aware of the presence / absence of these images in the city.
The more abstract “White Stripes”series, 2003, shows just a narrow window of the photo and compels us to imagine the rest of it.
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“People”, 2003, whitens the entire background. Only the passers-by float in the image, seemingly obeying a strange order. The viewer loses all marks of time and place and becomes witness to a strange ballet.
Facing the omnipresence of images in our society, we often lose our way of apprehending them. Giving only fragments to look at,
Paul Vinet drives us to be aware of the structure and the impact of images.
He has shown in New York, Paris, Brussels and Toulouse.
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