Gaspar Willmann
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2022
1995
France
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Through the JUMAP series Gaspar Willmann explores, in his own words, a “mediatic” type of painting, aware of its own issues of production and distribution.
The exuberant images that the artist stages provoke a feeling of "déjà vu" and of commonplaces that speak to everyone, so much so that these still lifes and landscapes belong (by fatality, determination, etc.) to a common history: that of art and visual communication.
However, beyond this limit, intimacy returns at a gallop, for example in the meticulous choice of images which are taken from the artist's personal image banks, his daily life, and the inherent melancholy of "too much".
Gaspar Willmann (born 1995) lives and works in Paris. Through his practice of video, installation and painting, Gaspar Willmann grabs everyday objects, forms and images, mobilizes collective representatives and behaviors to question their circulation and issues in the context of a technocratic society which acts on affects. Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Art de Lyon (2019), Gaspar presented his work at the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard (Paris, 2019) and at Divan Orange (Montréal, 2018). Winner of the Prix de Paris (2019), he was in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2020).