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Lot 139
Jean-Luc Mylayne (b. 1946)
No. C1 Juin- Juillet, 1981
Fermé14 October 2015
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GBP 8,125
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Jean-Luc Mylayne (b. 1946)
No. C1 Juin- Juillet, 1981
unique chromogenic print
titled in ink on Reina Sofia label with affixed typed titled and dated gallery label (backing board) and accompanying signed, titled, dated and copyright credit stamped Certificate of Authenticity
image/sheet: 71 x 70 ½in. (180.4 x 179.5cm.)
No. C1 Juin- Juillet, 1981
unique chromogenic print
titled in ink on Reina Sofia label with affixed typed titled and dated gallery label (backing board) and accompanying signed, titled, dated and copyright credit stamped Certificate of Authenticity
image/sheet: 71 x 70 ½in. (180.4 x 179.5cm.)
Jean-Luc Mylayne (b. 1946)
No. C1 Juin- Juillet, 1981
unique chromogenic print
titled in ink on Reina Sofia label with affixed typed titled and dated gallery label (backing board) and accompanying signed, titled, dated and copyright credit stamped Certificate of Authenticity
image/sheet: 71 x 70 ½in. (180.4 x 179.5cm.)
No. C1 Juin- Juillet, 1981
unique chromogenic print
titled in ink on Reina Sofia label with affixed typed titled and dated gallery label (backing board) and accompanying signed, titled, dated and copyright credit stamped Certificate of Authenticity
image/sheet: 71 x 70 ½in. (180.4 x 179.5cm.)
Gladstone Gallery, New York;
Acquired directly from the above by present owner in 1985.
Acquired directly from the above by present owner in 1985.
NoC1, June-July, 1981 (1981) is the portrait of a family of goldfinches (Carduelis Carduelis). This passerine bird with a black, red and white head has wings with a wide yellow bar, a white rump and an ivory conical beak. It likes the country close to cities, groves of deciduous trees, conifer plantations and orchards. Its song consists in rapid trills and twitters. During the nesting season, the female builds a nest made of grass and roots filled with vegetal down, feathers and lichens. The male and female feed their offspring with a mixture of seeds and insects. No 302, August-September 1981 (1981) is the portrait of a wood pigeon (Columba Palumbus), with blue-grey and pinkish plumage. Wood pigeons live in forests, parks, and gardens, in cities too. When nesting it coos softly. Its nest is a platform of intertwined twigs and its nestlings are fed with pigeon milk.
The cornerstone of photography – composition – gives way to birds and their habitat. Each of his photographs is printed in a single copy, thus becoming a “photographic picture” in which the birds are like “actors” faced with their “director”.
Once Jean-Luc Mylayne (with his wife Mylène Mylayne) has found the type of bird he wishes to photograph, he spends months, years sometimes, getting to know his subject, moving into its environment: European and American agricultural areas, rural and urban peripheries for their ordinary species (swallows, blackbirds, sparrows, etc.). He is not interested in rare or exotic birds, but to the more popular ones, known by all. He uses no telephoto lens, he positions himself as close as possible to his subject, letting it get used to his presence (the size of the birds indicates the distance at which they are photographed). He constructs his photographs with meticulous attention and the time of preparation (indicated in the title of each of his works) contrasts with the brief shooting time, as brief and ephemeral as one of those birds taking flight. Mylayne knows about ornithology, but for him birds are an occasion to simply look at the world, in a remarkably poetic way.
Timothée Chaillou
The cornerstone of photography – composition – gives way to birds and their habitat. Each of his photographs is printed in a single copy, thus becoming a “photographic picture” in which the birds are like “actors” faced with their “director”.
Once Jean-Luc Mylayne (with his wife Mylène Mylayne) has found the type of bird he wishes to photograph, he spends months, years sometimes, getting to know his subject, moving into its environment: European and American agricultural areas, rural and urban peripheries for their ordinary species (swallows, blackbirds, sparrows, etc.). He is not interested in rare or exotic birds, but to the more popular ones, known by all. He uses no telephoto lens, he positions himself as close as possible to his subject, letting it get used to his presence (the size of the birds indicates the distance at which they are photographed). He constructs his photographs with meticulous attention and the time of preparation (indicated in the title of each of his works) contrasts with the brief shooting time, as brief and ephemeral as one of those birds taking flight. Mylayne knows about ornithology, but for him birds are an occasion to simply look at the world, in a remarkably poetic way.
Timothée Chaillou
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