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Jeffrey Blondes

"La Loire – Aube et crépuscule"

published at 28/10/2019
La Loire - aube et crépuscule, installation vidéo de Jeffrey Blondes au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Blondes
The films Jeffrey Blondes is presenting at the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire are the result of regularly and systematically recording the same landscape on the banks of the River Loire, two hours per month during a year - six months at dawn and six months at dusk.
It seems like the Amazon or Africa, given how wild and intact the purity of the landscape is.
 

“I want to transmit a certain sense of time... the slowness we feel when we sit on the grass and take the time to watch the sun rise or set. Nature’s time. In all my work, there is this need to slow down; to take the time to pass from the act of “looking” to the feeling of “seeing”. It is hard to transmit this in a public place, where people only spend a few minutes, or even a few seconds, looking at a piece of art. The aim here is to stop the observer just long enough for them to realise that the image is not static, that it evolves, and that if you stop for a moment, you can enter another space-time which is not on the same scale as our daily lives where we are swamped by endless images... this world where we look at a lot of things without seeing anything... I offer the opposite... I invite people to not look at very much so that they can finally see all the details.” Jeffrey Blondes

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Jeffrey BLONDES
USA
 
 

Jeffrey Blondes has a fruitful career as a photographer and painter behind him, with over 40 solo exhibitions in galleries all over the world – but the past 14 years have been given over to the creation of 24-, 52- and 74-hour videos in high definition. These videos take an approach that anyone familiar with the rest of his work will recognise: observing, waiting and recording the subtleties of nature.

He has always been concerned with studying the intersection of the landscape and everything that the French word “temps” encompasses: time, climate, seasons, their rhythm and their cycle.

Jeffrey Blondes’ “temps” allows the patient observer to progress to a level where he or she begins to see and feel the time go by and perceive the rotation of the Earth. In this state of contemplation, the onlooker can become one with the sparse elements of the countryside and feel a sense of “timelessness” that he or she is unable to experience in the hectic world of urban life.

Working in direct contact with nature, Jeffrey Blondes makes the onlooker privy to the experience of actually being there. Always done outdoors, from life, his work is seldom reworked, presenting us with the recording of authentic events… live.

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Guy’s Hospital London, United Kingdom
Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery, Baltimore, USA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Complete Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Cardinal Points, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 
2018
Le Bois de Mametz, Commémoration au soldat tombé, Collégial Renaissance de Montrésor, Montrésor, France
 
2015
09h10m11s, Tayloe-Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA
 
2013
La Nuit des Musées, MuMA / Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France
Time and Tides, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 
2010
Terra Incognita, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 
2009
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
 
2008
Université Drexel, Philadelphie, USA
 
2006
Galerie Spheris, Bellows Falls, USA
Reeves Contemporary, New York, USA
Galerie Ingleby, London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
 
2005
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, USA
 
2004
Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
 
2003
Galerie Ingleby, Le Loft Sevigné, Paris
Galerie Spheris, Bellows Falls, USA
 
2002
Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
Galerie DNFA, Pasadena, USA
 
2001
Galerie Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Maison du Loir-et-Cher, Blois, France
Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
 
2000
Galerie Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Galerie Hackett-Freedman, San Francisco, USA
Galerie Ingleby, Art London, London, United Kingdom
 
1999
Galerie Kita, Lille, France
Galerie Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
 
1998
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, USA
The Fine Art Society, London, United Kingdom
 
1997
Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
Galerie Hackett-Freedman, San Francisco, USA
 
1996
Galerie K&E, New York, USA
The Fine Art Society, London, United Kingdom
 
1995
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
 
1994
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
Galerie K&E, New York, USA
 
1993
Galerie de Hesdin, Paris, France
The Gallery Three Zero, New York, USA
 
1992
The Gallery Three Zero, New York, USA
Catherine McCulloch, London, United Kingdom
 
1991
Catherine McCulloch, Paris, France
 
198
Littlejohn-Smith, New York, USA
Galerie Texbraun, FIAC, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Home as Art, Art as Home, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA
The Big Picture, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
 
2017
Bitforms Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA
 
2016
Bitforms Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA
Digital Generation, Fidelity International Global Collection, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
 
2015
Moving Still / Still Moving, ArtMur, Montreal, Canada
 
2013
Somerset House, London, Landmark: Fields of Photography Memory and Imagination: Dutch Italiante and Contemporary Landscapes, Mall Galleries, In Collaboration with Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom
La taille des antes, Domain of Chaumont, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
 
2011
The Birdwatchers, organisé par Laura Bardier, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
 
2009
H20: film on water, Galerie Spheris, Hanover, USA
 
2008
Turned On, Galerie Alan Cristea, London, United Kingdom
 
2007
The Light Fantastic, Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ingleby Gallery, London Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
 
2006
Past, present, future, Frost and Reed, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Spheris, Hanover, USA
 
2005
Sala Parés, Barcelona, Spain
 
2004
Second Nature, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, USA
 
2003
Art in Embassies Program, United States Mission Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria
 
2001
All-American, Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
Landscape and Memory, Galerie DNFA, Pasadena, USA
 
2000
14 Contemporary Realists: Recent Works on Paper, Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
 
1999
Private Visions, Galerie David Findlay Jr, New York, USA
 
1998
Opening Exhibition, Galerie Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Blondes, Gaha, Maguire, Galerie okkie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Movements of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, USA
 
1997
Christmas Contemporary, The Fine Art Society, London, United Kingdom
Summer Group, Galerie Radix, New York, USA
 
1996
Realism/Photorealism, Galerie Margulies Taplin, Coral Gables, USA
Water, James Graham & Sons, New York, USA
Unified Contrast, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
 
1995
Selections, Galerie K&E, New York, USA
Emerging From New York, Kleinert James Arts Center, Woodstock, USA
The Nature of Landscape, The Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA
 
1994
Deux Peintres, Galerie de Hesdin, Paris, France
 
1993
New Landscape, Galerie Bennett, Knoxville, USA
Summer/Landscapes, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, USA
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, USA
 
1992
Barbara Kogen & Co., New York, USA
Paysages, Galerie de Hesdin, Paris, France
New Landscapes, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, USA
 
1987
Bridgeport Museum of Art, Bridgeport, USA
 
1985
Génération Polaroid, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France

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Jeffrey Blondes
La Loire - aube et crépuscule, installation vidéo de Jeffrey Blondes au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Blondes
La Loire - aube et crépuscule, installation vidéo de Jeffrey Blondes au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Blondes
La Loire - aube et crépuscule, installation vidéo de Jeffrey Blondes au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © J. Blondes
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