Jacques Godard

Born in south of France in 1944.
Lives and works in Roquefort Les Pins, Alpes Maritimes (France).

For my personal photographic work, I always preferred to express my emotion on a subject than simply documenting it.
I used first the gum and bichromate, old photographic printing that I rediscovered during 1981 to 1985 and used until 2004.

Recent progress of printers, the quality of pigmented inks and papers, causing me to foresee many other possibilities, convinced me to pursue my work on the image into the digital pictures.

In 2011, after a lot of work and researches with computer, digital gave me the opportunity to create my tools for my new working that I named "Pixoplasty".

The original photographic image serves as a matrix of pixels for a study of matter and interpretation. The image is destructured, its original constituents are processed into a material as malleable as a clay of pixels.

This serendipitous pixoplasty allows me to go further in the freedom of interpretation of sensations offered by the original subject.

Visit my website for more pictures and information.

Mathematics and Physics at University of Nice (France) from 1963 to 1967.
Autodidact photographer since 1970.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2020 - 2021, from October 17 2020, to June 20 2021, TELLUS exhibition, a joint project of Jacques Godard (pixoplasty), Hala Hilmi-Hodeib (photography) and Roland Kraus (painting and sculpture), at the "Centre International d'Art Contemporain" (CIAC), Castle of Carros-Village (06510).

2019, from April 5 to May 3, "Pixoplasty", High school "Lycée Carnot", Room of the Councils, 90 Boulevard Carnot, CANNES (06400) - France

September 17th to November 17th, 2015, Festival of Mediterranean Photography: Exhibition "Genesis" (pixoplastie) Espace Ecureuil Massena, 6 Place Massena Nice (France).

"13th Monaco Japan Artistic Meeting", organized by AIAP-UNESCO Monaco and Japan.

6th to 28th February 2015, Cultural Center of Roquefort-les-Pins (06): "Genesis" (Pixoplastie)

April-May 2009, Marc Piano Gallery, VALLAURIS (French Riviera), Tauromachy (dichromated gum and digital printing).

December - January 2007, Marc Piano Gallery, VALLAURIS (French Riviera), still Life (dichromated gum).

June - August 2005, International Academy of Arts, VALLAURIS, still life and tauromachy (dichromated gum and digital printing).

November - December 2003, Art 7 Gallery, NICE (French Riviera), Venice and taur...