JEAN-LUC BLANC

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on the French artist Jean- Luc Blanc’s enigmatic “glam” oeuvre. It documents his retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2009), where Blanc’s works have been juxtaposed with those of 45 historic and contemporary artists, as well as with numerous artifacts, antiques, jewels, crystals, curios, and naturalia. In Alex Farqhuarson’s perceptive essay, he comments, “Jean-Luc Blanc mostly paints portraits … Like phantoms, the people he paints have no corporeality, much less a developed identity; and like actors, his subjects appear ‘in character’, void of self, projecting the lives of others.” Additional writings by Thierry Jousse, Melvin Moti and interview by Alexis Vaillant.

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