BOUSQUET Michel

Mal-Placé

France

2012Christine Ollier

What he presents here was realized in Polaroid. Some of the images were taken spontaneously. Michel Bousquet takes pictures of landscapes and places that he finds interesting. To him, those represent a living material that reacts to the attempt of reunion, of understanding or of temporary appropriation. Among them are the Bourdelle Museum that used to be the workshop where he lived, the Saint-Cloud Park, the King’s vegetable garden in Versailles and some landscapes in the region of Auvergne that surround a place named Malplacé (French for “wrong place”).

About the artist

Michel Bousquet was born in 1962 and lives near Paris.
He studied at the national school Louis Lumière and at the image school of the Gobelins.
He first worked on still life creations for the press or advertising and works on a regular basis for magazines about interior design.
Besides commissions, he works on personal creations like “Being 20 in Beyrouth” which he showed in exhibitions and was turned into a book published by Alternative editions.
The portraits of “It’s not me” dealt with the question of identity and were presented in Lyon during the Septembre festival of photography.