Bram van VELDE

Original black and white photographic portrait of Bram Van Velde by Marc Trivier. Portrait of artist, of anonymous figure, of madman, of slaughterhouse or of tree: Marc Trivier photographed each subject with the same interrogative intensity. All realized in the same square format, elementary and closed, without retouching or cropping, the photographs seem less to stage a subject - famous or unknown, elected or fallen, living or dead - than to question a presence. "What interested me was not simply to photograph a body or a face, but that particular situation which is someone in the process of taking a photo of someone else." Trivier strips the work of its effects and reveals the enigmatic nudity of the photographic body. "In his cosmogony, each thing, each being, plant, animal or human, deserves the same respect. For all are confronted with the same iron law: solitude." (Luc Desbenoit in Télérama, 05/03/2011 on the occasion of the Marc Trivier retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie). Silver gelatin print unsigned, like most of Trivier's works. Unique proof printed by the artist. Fold marks and corner creases, some pale marginal stains at foot not affecting the photograph. Extremely rare photograph in very large format by one of the most important contemporary photographers.