Brodbeck & de Barbuat
French artist duo (born 1986 & 1981, respectively)
Brodbeck & de Barbuat (born 1986 and 1981) form a couple of visual artists working with photography, video and installation.
Biography
Brodbeck & de Barbuat (also known as Lucie & Simon) were born in France. They have worked together since 2005 in Paris. They are graduates from the Ecole nationale supérieure de la Photographie in France, and fellow artists from the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome, Italy.
Their work questions through large-scale photographs and video installations our relationship to the physical and spiritual world and the perception of reality and its representation in visual arts.
From urban or family solitude to existential wanderings, their compositions capture different moods of man's silent melancholy, focusing on the narrow chink between our existence and the world of dreams.
Through photography, video and installation, their projects explore the boundaries between media as forms of expression and the identity of the image as document.
Exhibitions
Their works have been exhibited in solo shows including the FoMu, Museum of Photography Antwerp, Belgium, the Institut français du Japon in Osaka, Japan, the Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France, the Chimney New-York, and group shows including the Grand Palais in Paris, the Kunsthalle Munich, the Venice Arsenale, the Thessaloniki Museum for Photography in Greece, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Le Centquatre in Paris, la Vieille charité in Marseille, 798 District, Beijing, at the festival des arts visuels de Vevey, Switzerland, and the Kowall+Oddermat projects space in Miami.
Influences
Their work is influenced by the Romantic era with French and German painters such as Théodore Géricault, Antoine-Jean Gros, Jacques-Louis David, Paul Delaroche, Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German Expressionism (Fritz Lang...) and Land art through the work of American artists such as Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria or James Turrell.
Simon Brodbeck is also the son of German photographer Peter Lindbergh.
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