Jacques Godard
Jacques Godard
Roquefort Les Pins, French Riviera, France
About 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 www.jacquesgodard.com for more pictures and information.
Education:
Mathematics and Physics at University of Nice (France) from 1963 to 1967.
Autodidact photographer since 1970.
Events:
September 11th, 2019 - May 13th, 2020 : Collective exhibition "Getting Closer to Nature", exhibition created by Vedo Corporate Art consultancy, run jointly by Jessica Frances of Vitruvian Arts Limited and Karina Phillips of Gallery Different contemporary fine art gallery, London.
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Major collections organisations and Museums:
Arts-Affaires, Boulogne Billancourt (Paris - France).
Ascherman Gallery, Beachwood, Cleveland (Ohio - USA).
Bibliothèque Nationale - Cabinet des Estampes (Paris - France).
Collodions Naturels International (Rouen - Fance).
Conservatoire Du Littoral, National Directorate (Paris - France).
Conservatoire Du Littoral, Rayol Canadel (Var - Fance).
Electricité de France, Var directorate (Toulon - Fance).
Fondation Electricité de France, National Directorate Paris - France.
French Museum for Photography, Bièvres (Ile de France - Fance).
Italian Foundation for Photography (Turin - Italy).
Joseph FACH Gallery (Frankfurt am Main - Germany).
Krivy Gallery (Nice - Fance).
Mediterranean School for Gardens and Landscapes, Grasse - Fance.
National School of Photography of Arles (Bouches du Rhône - Fance).
Theater of the photography and of the image, Museums of Nice - Fance.
Professional experiences:
November 1995, presentation on the gum bichromate process in the National School of
Photography of Arles.
September 1999, training on the application of the digital image to the technique of the
photographic print of the gum bichromate, for the Union of photographers professionals of
the South (S.P.P.M.), France.
February 2000, training of deepening this technique for the S.P.P.M..
Main publications and editions:
2010 Portfolio Case, vintages of 50 artists of the association "20 Years old stArt", stArt
editions.
2005 "Natural Reserves of France", Nathan Editions.
2003 "Eroticism in the Garden", Flammarion Editions.
1999 "Panorama of Contemporary Art on the Cote d'Azur", Pusan Metropolitan Art
Museum Editions (South Korea).
Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2019, from April 5 to May 3, , "Pixoplasties", 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 REI
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 tauromachy (dichromated gum and digital printing).
September - October 2001, Septoff de la Photo, Michel Cabaret Gallery, NICE (French Riviera), nudes and tauromachy dichromated gum.
September - October 2000, SeptOff Photography, Faculty for Sciences of NICE (French Riviera), Plaine des Maures (dichromated gum).
June to September 2000, Headquarters of B.N.P.- PARIBAS Bank, NICE (French Riviera), Plaine des Maures (dichromated gum).
September - October 1998, Art7 Gallery, NICE, (Nudes and Portraits dichromated gum).
May - June 1998, Headquarters of the French Post "La Poste", PARIS(Still Life dichromated gum).
September - October 1997, N.C.E., Contemporary Photography Art Gallery, PARIS (Lanscapes dichromated gum).
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Group exhibitions :
2019, Collective exhibition "Getting Closer to Nature", exhibition created by Vedo Corporate Art consultancy, run jointly by Jessica Frances of Vitruvian Arts Limited and Karina Phillips of Gallery Different contemporary fine art gallery, London. From September 11th, 2019 - May 13th, 2020.
2019, "SHADOW & LIGHT" thematic exhibition, from May 11 to June 16, organized by the stArt association in the Saint-Elme Chapel, Citadelle of Villefranche-sur-Mer (06236)-France.
2019, "Conversation with the trees", exhibition of the artists of the National Monegasque Committee of the A.I.A.P.-UNESCO from April 3 to June 10-, Galeries des Pêcheurs, Parking des Pêcheurs (Palais Musée) Levels 1 and 2, Avenue de la Quarantaine - MONACO.
2019, "13th Monaco Japan Artistic Meeting", organized by REIJINSHA (Japan) and the Monegasque National Committee of A.I.A.P.- UNESCO from 8 to 10 February at the Rainier III Auditorium Bd Louis II, MONACO.
2019, Exhibition "TELLUS", from January 11 to February 9, Cultural Center ROQUEFORT LES PINS (06330), FRANCE.
March 10th 2017 – April 8th 2017, exhibition "Taking in the View" GALLERY DIFFERENT 14 Percy Street London W1T 1DR (United Kingdom). Exhibition of Landscapes - traditional to contemporary | representational to abstract, (Genesis).
December 10th 2016 - May 30th 2017, invited to participate to the "Young Creation of the Photography of the French Riviera" exhibition, Vision Future, Nice (France), (landscapes, still-lifes and Genesis)
February 16th to April 24th 2015, "Landscapes Nature and Territory", André Malraux Cultural Center - Villeneuve-Loubet (06), bichromate gums "La Plaine des Maures."
April 19th to May 2012, "Primus Tempus", Castle of La Palud sur Verdon (04), (Pixoplasty).
July 2011, Thematic exhibition "Confinement / Freedom" , La Brigue sur Roya (pixoplasty).
July 28th- August 15th 2010, "Monde Blanc" exhibition in La Brigue sur Roya, (Seascape, digital).
December 2009, "Monde Blanc", Cyclades Gallery, ANTIBES, (Abstraction, digital printings).
October 2009 to Septembre 2010 : Agora Einstein, SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, (Landscapes : Plaine des Maures and Digne, digital printings and dichromated gum).
October 2008, "à poils, à plumes, à cornes, etc." Maison des artistes, CAGNES SUR MER, (Tauromachy, digital printing).