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Gerald Petit, born in 1973 lives and works in Dijon, France. After his residency at ISCP (NY) in 2004, Gerald Petit had his first solo-exhibit with LMAKprojects titled Facing the present that night at Otter Lake in 2005. He has since exhibited throughout Europe and Japan and featured at such institutes as Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Museu da Presidência da República, Portugal, Musée Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône and the Biennale of Lyon in 2009.
Gerald Petit (France, 1973) tests the modalities of appearance, generation and capturing of an image. For this he employs a range of media, tools and types of representation: resisting category. His analysis of image is founded in painting, traversing the permutations of painting's representative function. His photography spans a spectrum of styles and genres, from the conventions of portraiture to staged fictive worlds. The enigma of identity acts as a unifying element in his work: the ambivalence of representation between veracity and illusion.
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Le luxe s’expose sur la toile, in L’express, p.58/59, novembre 2008.
Le Comité Colbert sur la toile, in Intramuros, p. 52/55, November 2008.
Sexy Dancer, by Judicaël Lavrador, in Les Inrockuptibles n° 603, 19 juin 2007.
Gerald Petit, the buzz artist, by Pascal Beausse, in 02 n° 41, spring 2007
Same same but different, in Frog 4, Fall/Winter 2006
Free*, #1, november 2006
A procura do encontro, by Sofia Barrocas, in
Notícias Magazine, p. 28, October 15, 2006
Luzes sobre Lisboa, by Alexandre Costa, in Expresso ACTUAL Sul N°1768, pp. 4-7, September 16, 2006
A luz de Lisboa, by Pedro Faro, in L+arte N°28, pp. 68-70, September 2006
Heroes, by Aude Launay, in Zéro2 n° 38, p. 41, summer 2006
Supernova, by Judicaël Lavrador, in Hors Série Beaux Arts Magazine, May 2006
We all need another Hero, by Claire Jacquet, in Zéro2, January 2006
Le Journal des Arts, FIAC Edition, p. 2, October 2005
Entretien avec un vampire, by Nicolas Exertier, in Art Présence, p. 2-28, September 2005
Home of the vikings, by Gerald Petit, in Nuke Magazine, 2005
Lmak Projects, in Kunst Beeld (NDL), March 2005
Out of nowhere, de la réalité à la fiction, interview by G. Mansart, in Hors d’Oeuvre N°11, 2002
Phantasmagoria, View on Colour, Fall 2002
Body warmer, View on Colour, Fall 2001
Eclipse, in Crash Magazine Special Issue, December 2000
Nom d’un petit bonhomme, by Frédérique Chapuis, in Télérama N°2639, p. 40, August 2000
Six photographes en quête de réalité, by Philippe Dagen, in Le Monde, August 11, 2000
La ville à son image, by Marion Vignal, in L’Express Magazine N°2567, pp. 66-67, September 2000
L’été photographique de Lectoure, in Photo Nouvelles N°7, July 2000
Ynot, view from heaven, in Blindspot #14, 1999
Richard Avedon au pays de Tim Burton, by Fréderic Pintus, in Hors d’Oeuvre N°5, 1999
Contemporains et consorts...ium, in Bourgogne Magazine N°26, p. 55, 1999
