PAUL VINET
Stories 2012-2019
Analog photography
C-Print and gold leaf mounted on Dibond
In “Stories”, I created a portrait of my father through the objects he left behind after he passed, questioning how our objects represent us, or how we form our sense of identity through them. I photographed still life arrangements using decades-old objects from my parents’ house in Paris. Many of these objects were broken but had been stored regardless of their condition. This series is a homage to my father, and it’s also a way to make sense of some of the junk he left behind -- junk that retains a great deal of history, emotion, and meaning. I purposely treated these old objects as sacred relics, by applying gold leaf directly onto the print, referring to the Pre-Renaissance Italian paintings where gold symbolizes the divine.
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
37 x30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
60 x 40 inches | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Objects and gold leaf 47 x 10 x 10 inches
37 x 30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Objects and gold leaf 10 x 10 x 47 1/4 inches
37 x 30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
72 x 54 inches / 183 x 137 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Objects and gold leaf 10 x 10 x 46 1/2 inches
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Galleria Ca' d'Oro, New York, NY
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
37 x 30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
37 x 30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
37 x 30 inches / 94 x 76 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
50 x 38 inches / 127 x 96,5 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP
40 x 50 inches / 101,5 x 127 cm | C-print and gold leaf mounted on Dibon | Edition of 5 + 1 AP