Jean Louis Gaillemin  Obsessions  Triptych, 66 / 162
Self-Portrait 1, 2 and 3 (Flandrin Black Series)
 
Digital collages on Canson Archival Mat. Paper,
Each piece 58.5 x 40.7 cm numbered 2/7
Date: 2014
 
Jean Louis Gaillemin Self-Portrait 1
2014, 58.5 x 40.7cm
"Flandrin Black" series
digital print on matte paper,
 
Jean Louis Gaillemin  Self-portrait 2
2014, 58.5 x 40.7cm
"Flandrin Black" series
digital print on matte paper,
numbered 2/7
 
Jean Louis Gaillemin  Self-portrait 3
2014, 58.5 x 40.7cm
"Flandrin Black" series
digital print on matte paper,
numbered 2/7
 
 
Included in three anatomical plates of the Bourgery treatise (1830), Hyppolite Flandrin's Le Jeune Homme au bord de la mer evokes the "obsessions" of Jean Louis Gaillemin, photographer and collagist who produced a large number of works with this icon. Gay.
 
He incorporates it into famous paintings where it takes the place of Botticelli's Venus or of Moses saved from the waters or of the child Jesus in his crib. He places it in the still lifes of the Vanities, or in the retorts of David's Lavoisier. It can be guessed in sunsets and full moons by Caspar David Friedrich. 
 
He was invited to2015 to intervene at the Festival d'histoire de l'art de Fontainebleau on the theme: The Fortune of the young man by the sea,