Jean-Marie Virat
Jean-Marie Virat is a photographer who has been practicing photography for over 25 years. From film until the end of the 90s, he moved to digital in the 2000s. From 2008-2009 his photo activity took on a more sustained rhythm.
Almost self-taught, he took a course from the City of Paris over a year (1999-2000) and participated in a few internships. In 2014 he decided to propose a first exhibition. Since then he has made several.
His work is essentially in color, urban and graphic, even if he also practices what is called street art, street scenes. Here again the graphic organization creates the atmosphere. Lines structure his photographs and offer a rhythm to their reading.
He “shoots” mainly in town, in Paris and during his travels, with a particular affection for Asia. His masters: above all a painter, Paul Klee. And in photo, Saul Leiter and Harry Gruyaert.
A theme crosses the periods: facades. With meticulous graphics and framing, he tries to convey their poetry, their music. He compares these works to compositions for which we would have privileged the rhythms. More broadly, he remains fascinated by flat surfaces. With his exhibition walls ripe he tried to talk about the time that passes on the walls.
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windows • 27 artworks
View allocres de sicile • 31 artworks
View allAvec ma série « murs mûrs » j'ai tenté de transmettre les histoires que ces murs anciens nous racontent. Avec « blues » j'ai essayé de capter et communiquer l'ambiance particulière qu'une couleur peut diffuser.
Dans cette nouvelle sélection, avec comme fils conducteurs les marques du temps et ces ocres chaleureux, je m'aventure à partager mon émotion sur cette île qui a su briller mais a aussi trop souvent été chaotique.
Cherche murs pour s'exposer.
façades • 69 artworks
View allblues • 31 artworks
View allMais aussi le bleu de l'introspection. Bleu de la mer et du ciel, bleu de l'infini, l'ouverture.
Le bleu d'un ciel puissant, ensoleillé. Couleur chaleureuse bien que classée (conventionnellement) parmi les froides.
Bleu profond.
Sur cette série, cette variation, un, des bleus jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'histoire que chaque photo nous raconte. Il peuvent se faire discrets ou occuper tout l'espace. Il peuvent être unique couleur, ou jouer avec leurs complices que sont le rouge et le jaune.
Des photos qui viennent de partout dans le monde, qui nous montrent ainsi qu'on peu trouver de la cohérence dans la diversité.
graphique • 75 artworks
View allpaysages urbains • 58 artworks
View allreflets • 39 artworks
View allfrom my balcony • 34 artworks
View allstreets • 63 artworks
View allpaysages • 39 artworks
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Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
The artist has developed his technique through his own artistic experience
Biography
Jean-Marie Virat is a photographer who has been practicing photography for over 25 years. From film until the end of the 90s, he moved to digital in the 2000s. From 2008-2009 his photo activity took on a more sustained rhythm.
Almost self-taught, he took a course from the City of Paris over a year (1999-2000) and participated in a few internships. In 2014 he decided to propose a first exhibition. Since then he has made several.
His work is essentially in color, urban and graphic, even if he also practices what is called street art, street scenes. Here again the graphic organization creates the atmosphere. Lines structure his photographs and offer a rhythm to their reading.
He “shoots” mainly in town, in Paris and during his travels, with a particular affection for Asia. His masters: above all a painter, Paul Klee. And in photo, Saul Leiter and Harry Gruyaert.
A theme crosses the periods: facades. With meticulous graphics and framing, he tries to convey their poetry, their music. He compares these works to compositions for which we would have privileged the rhythms. More broadly, he remains fascinated by flat surfaces. With his exhibition walls ripe he tried to talk about the time that passes on the walls.
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : 1960
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists
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Parcours de expositions
- Murs - 20 au 27 février 2018 - Galerie Vidi Vixi - Paris 11
- Façades II - 14 au 30 avril 2017 - Espace Canopy - Paris 18
- Murs mûrs - 29 octobre au 27 novembre 2016 - Le Rideau Rouge - Paris 18
- Partitions - 5 au 30 novembre 2014 - Le Rideau Rouge - Paris 18
Mention spéciale dans Minimal Urban Photography
Mention spéciale dans Minimal Urban Photography (Groupe Facebook), avec pour commentaire :
There are a few photographers with an individual eye and a discernably different sensibility and our current special mention winner, Jean-Marie Virat, is one. Avoiding the merely pretty, decorative, or merely formally perfect, Jean-Marie brings intelligence and humour to his choice of subjects and his way of shooting them. Both this photo and the other shot he published recently make a political or social comment while being both witty and elegant minimal urban photographs in their own right. Vive la différence ! Which is what this award is for, something worthy of being singled out. Bravo, Jean-Marie, mes félicitations sincères ! – avec Jean-Marie Virat.
Adam CZARNOWSKI – 28/01/2016