ATTRITION:
- WINNER of the "BOURSE DU TALENT #46 (2011)" organised by Photographie.com, in partnership with "L'Express, Nikon, La BNF et Picto".
- NOMINATED for the "Prix Art Contemporain 2011" ARTE.
- LOS ANGELES "MOPLA" (Month of Photography Los Angeles): Pro'jekt L.A. (Projection: April 2013).
- HONG KONG SOLO EXHIBITION (Joyce Building: January 2013).
- RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE 2013 (Arles France: Theatre Antique): July 3, 2013
- EXHIBITION " Le Christ dans la Photographie Contemporaine" (Strasbourg), April 2013.
- LILLE ARTFAIR (Contemporary Art Fair in Lille France) from March 7th till 10th March 2013.
- LEICA (Paris): November 2012.
- SALON DE LA PHOTO (Paris): November 2012.
- SLICK (Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, Off FIAC) from October 17th till 21th October 2012
- ULSAN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL (KOREA) September 2012.
- DALI INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION (CHINA): August 2012.
- HEREZ (Paris): July 2012.
- SOLO EXHIBITION from December 6th 2011 till December 31th 2011 : Silencio Paris (David Lynch).
- SOLO EXHIBITION from September 22th 2011 till November 20th 2011 : Gallery Gabriel & Gabriel (Paris ).
- CUTLOG (Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, Off FIAC) from October 20th till 23th October 2011.
- NOMINATED for the "Coup de coeur Photo" 2011 by L'Express Style.
- COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION (BNF: French National Librairy): from December 15th till 19th February 2012.
- BOOK: ATTRITION by Thomas Devaux ///// (ISBN : 978-2-7466-3721-4) ///// (Available in Bookstore: CENTRE POMPIDOU, ARTCURIAL, JEU DE PAUME, BNF, Artazart, Silencio (Club David Lynch),Ofr, La Photolibrairie, L'écume des pages, Mk2 quai de seine, Eyrolles, Gallery Gabriel & Gabriel).
- PRESS: EYEMAZING (Holland) ("Mag" 2011 & "Book" 2013), AZART (2011), SHOTS magazine (USA) ( 2012), L'Express "Style" (2011), VOGUE (Germany), POLKA (France), KHUBE (France), ELLE CHINA (China), DAHSE (USA), ROOMS(UK), Le BONBON, Le FIGARO Magazine (2012), PRISM Magazine (Irish)+ FRANCE 3 (TV (2012), BFM Buisines TV (2012), ADORE NOIR (Canada) (2013), RAISE (2013), FRANCE 2 (TV (2013)...
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Les Visages et La Main
Size A: 120x90 cm: edition of 4 // Size B: 80x60 cm: edition of 5
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A T T R I T I O N
[at.ʁi.sjɔ̃]
1. (Physique) the form or structure of a person's body : bodily makeup.
2. (Theology) The regret of having offended God, caused by the fear of punishment, purgatory of Hell.
3. (Military) During a war, a strategy of attrition is a strategy in which the object is to wear out the combating forces and reserves of the enemies, rather than the progression into enemy territories or the destruction/occupation of the enemy’s objectives.4. (Medicine) Attrition designates the loss of organic substance une perte de substance organique on the intestinal level by crushing, corrosion, etc. The attrition also designates excoriations caused by violent rubbing.
La Robe et les Fleurs
Size A: 200x150 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 160x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x75 cm: ed: 4
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BNF: FRENCH NATIONAL LIBRAIRY
........Thomas Devaux has authored several complex and ambitious series. In each of them one can find a subtle but strong game of jousting played out between his core values and the evolutions brought about by modern technology. The inflammatory value behind the photography is not so innate. It is more a direct effort meant to mirror a fragment of a future re-composition. He employs his harvest of photos in the same way that he uses his other fragments of images found in art books in the final objective of elaborating beautiful yet fiercely haunting collages for his series. Here is where the capital notion of “tearing asunder” comes into in his work. The manual destruction or digital tearing asunder of a reproduced image is the same conceptual posture for the artist. It is truly about the dissemination of a unit and then its later resurrection in another form. Certainly it may at times manifest itself as arbitrary, born from his imagination and from his visual knowledge. Thomas Devaux works to move his forms from the realm of ideas to near-endless possibilities.
........The works in the “ATTRITION” series were selected according to their composition and their figurative will. This is a double articulation between what is borrowed and that which is a reinterpretation on one hand and an axe in art history on the other hand. “ATTRITION”, thanks to the expanded possibilities of digital techniques of which I have become very experienced, shows a n affluence of forms and materials such as an organic proliferation of hair, of body parts, etc. The portrait becomes a division of a face created by itself or vanishes in its own contour. The development material, though shadowy and opaque, is light and see-through. It raises the texture of the paper which allows for an automatic refinement of the forms and pigments.
........The final result is both sensual and onirique in the in the very image of the models that Devaux photographs in the backstages of fashion shows. They allow him to grasp the pictorial qualities which remain anchored in this field of photography. His surface does not rely upon the thickness of painting materials but rather on an artificial yet original vocabulary which is personal and photographic.
Original text by Anne Biroleau-Lemagny, General Curator Charge of Contemporary 21st Century
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Le Ventre
Size A: 200x150 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 160x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x75 cm: ed: 4
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La Couronne
Size A: 160x160 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 80x80 cm: ed: 4
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Les Bras
Size A: 200x150 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 160x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x75 cm: ed: 4
Le Sommeil
Size A: 160 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 80 cm: ed: 4
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Menine (160 x 130 cm // 120 x 100 // 100 x 80 cm)
Size A: 160x130 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120x100 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x80 cm: ed: 4
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L'Arbre
Size A: 160x160 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 80x80 cm: ed: 4
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La Douche
Size A: 100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60 cm: ed: 3
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En Haut
Size A: 100x100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80x80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60x60 cm: ed: 3
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Pieta 1
Size A: 300x200 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 200x130 cm: ed: 2 // Size C: 120x70 cm: ed: 5
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Pieta 2
Size A: 300x200 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 200x130 cm: ed: 2 // Size C: 120x70 cm: ed: 5
Pieta 3
Size A: 200x150 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 160x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x75 cm: ed: 4
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Nature Morte d'Abou Ghraib
Size A: 200x150 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 150x120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x80 cm: ed: 4
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Le Dos et La Main
Size A: 160 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 80 cm: ed: 4
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La Tête
Size A: 100x100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80x80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60x60 cm: ed: 3
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La Femme et La Main (160 x 130 cm // 120 x 100 cm // 100 x 80 cm)
Size A: 160x130 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120x100 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x80 cm: ed: 4
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Le Voile
Size A: 100x100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80x80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60x60 cm: ed: 3
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La Femme et L'Enfant (160 x 130 cm // 120 x 100 // 100 x 80 cm)
Size A: 160x130 cm: edition of 2 // Size B: 120x100 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 100x80 cm: ed: 4
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La Bague
Size A: 100x100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80x80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60x60 cm: ed: 3
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L 'Aveugle
Size A: 100x100 cm: edition of 3 // Size B: 80x80 cm: ed: 3 // Size C: 60x60 cm: ed: 3
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ULSAN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL (KOREA) September 2012
HONG KONG (2013)
HONG KONG (2013)
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MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY - LOS ANGELES (USA) April 2013
LILLE ARTFAIR 2013 (March)
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DALI INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION (CHINA): August 2012
CHINA EXHIBITION 2012
HONG KONG Exhibition: Project "Gigli by Joyce" (January 2013)
COLLECTION BNF (French National Librairy)
SLICK ARTFAIR PARIS (October 2012)
CUTLOG (PARIS) October 2011
