Eric Poitevin エリック・ポワトヴァン

Eric Poitevin is a leading artist in contemporary French photography. Born in 1961 in Longuyon (France), he lives and works in Mangiennes (Meuse) and had the responsibility of a workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
His works revisit the major genres of classical painting (nudes, portraits, still life, landscapes, etc.) in a photographic process that centres on nature and the body. Whether the subjects are faces of veterans from the First World War (1985), dead bucks (1995), skulls or butterflies (1994), woods (1995), or human or animal body parts (1999–2001), Eric Poitevin’s photographs are the result of a progressive decision-making process. Sometimes requiring months of waiting for the subject of the photograph to be constituted as he wishes, he then meticulously constructs his image. The light and framing, size and paper chosen all contribute to shedding his subject of outward aspects to reveal it’s fragility.
His works were notably exhibited at Pascale and Piero Sparta (Chagny), Le Plateau (Paris), Villa Medici (Rome), and at MAMCO (Geneva).