“Claude Estèbe SWEET
WASTE Digital Works 2009-2019” photobook by French Art photographer CLAUDE ESTEBE
210 x 230 mm, 144 pages, 150 colors photographs.
Printed by Toot Yung Art Center, Bangkok, 2019.
Texts in English for a publication of 500 hundred copies. Printed
in Bangkok, Thailand.
This book is the monographic catalog printed for the retrospective
of the last 10 years ( 2009-2019) of Claude Estèbe ‘s photographs at the Toot
Yung Art Center in Chiang Mai (Thailand) from mid-november 2019 to early
february 2020.
Texts in English for a publication of 500 hundred copies, by @.
The texts in English include :
- Claude Estèbe, In
Wonderland…
An introduction by Michel Poivert, the leading French historian of
photography (translated from French by Jum Stillwaggon).
- Sweet Waste
An essay by Manit Sriwanichpoom, proeminent Thai artist and
curator.
- The mourning of a Dream
An essay by Agnès Giard, French writer and anthropologist who made
her Ph.D about Japanese Lovedolls.
- Interview
by Myrtille Tibayrenc, artist and curator, director of Toot Yung
Art Center.
Chapters :
TUKATA
AGENT ORANGE
RADIUM GIRLS
PACHIMON
H DOLLS
ULTRANATURE
SWEET WASTE
Content link :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/claude-estebe/49214501621/in/dateposted/
Critic :
“The grand visual poem achieved by Claude Estèbe is a reading of our
contemporary world through
it’s idols . Desire, capitalism, death... many of the objects he
examines close-up are copies, some of shoddy execution. Estèbe grew attached to
the flawed figurines, whose beauty he has the gift of unveiling. Behind the
looking-glass image of heroic beauty hides another world, that of fantasy.
…
Claude Estebe is an artist of
embodiment. It’s not about a spirit which becomes body, but rather of an object
which encounters the desire of the body. The creation of an imaginary world
often springs from the observation of very concrete things. The
institutionalisation of toys rendered “invisible” these objects which condense
our desires and our fears from infancy. It took the work of the artist and the
scientist to reveal this magical empire. In this sense, the artistic approach
forged by his scientific culture places Claude Estèbe in the heritage of Lewis
Carrol.”
Michel Poivert
Among
the subjects photographed in this book :
Godzilla,
Mothra, King Ghidorah, Ultraman, Getter Robot, Japanese and Chinese Lovedolls.
Additional
pictures of the book on request.
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