(b. 1953, France)
杰拉德·兰斯南于1953年出生于法国塔朗斯，他制作大型摄影作品描绘了我们与流行文化以及当代符号的关系。兰斯南在波尔多日报的摄影实验室当学徒时，开始了他的摄影生涯。他在18岁时成为摄影记者，最终为新成立的西格玛摄影新闻社工作。他那些关于运动员，艺术家，教士和政治人物的摄影作品作为当代肖像摄影的典范而受到赞誉，在著名的世界新闻摄影奖中获得了四项一等奖。作为一名艺术摄影师，兰斯南融入传统的摄影方式，进行富有创意的叙事，让我们重新认识自己所居住的世界。这些复杂的摄影组合没有利用真实的面貌来呈现现实，而是使用原始且躁动的图像来探索和批判社会的发展。
作为法国著名摄影家之一，兰斯南的作品在世界各地的美术馆和博物馆展出，并有许多著名的私人收藏。他于2006年被授予艺术与文学骑士勋章，并于2013年被授予艺术与文学军官勋章。
Born in 1953 in Talence, France, Gérard Rancinan produces large-scale photographs that depict our relationship with pop culture and the icons of our time. Rancinan began his photographic career as an apprentice in the photo lab of a Bordeaux daily newspaper, becoming a photojournalist at the age of 18, eventually working for the newly founded Sygma photo-press agency. His photographs of athletes, artists, ecclesiastics and politicians are celebrated as sophisticated investigations in to contemporary portraiture, earning him four first prizes at the prestigious World Press Photo Awards. As a fine art photographer, Rancinan incorporates traditional modes of photography, producing inventive narratives, offering an idiosyncratic view of the world we inhabit. Rather than presenting reality at face value, these complex compositions explore and critique social developments with the use of raw and unsettling imagery. One of France’s leading photographers, Rancinan has exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, with works in many prestigious private collections. He was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2006, and Officier des Arts et des Lettres in 2013.
生平简介 / Biography
杰拉德·兰斯南生于波尔多地区，他环游世界，亲身见证具有历史意义的事件：自然灾难，内战和种族战争，城市骚乱……他面对着复杂的人文环境以及由此形成的种种随机事件。他对自我表达的迫切需求使他专注于世界各地的重要问题，并通过不断发展的美学棱镜过滤产生了令人震撼的影像。除此之外，他也是一位研究人员，不断地打破壁垒，解构了当代生活中的伟大传奇与肖像作品。他关于运动员、艺术家、教士和政客的摄影系列已成为标志性作品。这些为他赢得了许多奖项，其中包括四个著名的世界新闻奖。在这些他偏爱的领域之外，兰斯南创作了“现代三部曲”，成为了当代人的清醒观察者。这种非主流的观点涉及真实的场景，是对我们所生活的世界的真实模仿。杰拉德·兰斯南获得艺术与文学军官勋章。
杰拉德·兰斯南的作品无可比拟。作为艺术摄影家，艺术家的职业也是他的表达方式。兰斯南的摄影不仅是条件性的反射，更是他的思考过程，是对我们所生活世界的敏锐看法以及公认的当代艺术形式。兰斯南打破传统的摄影规则，走了一条虽不是唯一但仍保持独特的道路。尽管他的摄影总是在当今世界现实的启发下创作，但它们的价值不仅仅止于表面上所见的价值。兰斯南的作品是诗意的命题，是对当今时代洞见的片段。兰斯南喜欢从经典中获得灵感-从委拉斯凯兹到籍里柯-并结合罗伯特·劳森伯格或保罗·麦卡锡的影响，创造出那些预先密谋的天才设想。
Born in the Bordeaux region, Gérard Rancinan travels the globe, bearing first hand witness to events of historical importance. Natural catastrophes, civil and ethnic wars, urban riots... he comes face to face with the complexity of the human condition and the random events by which it is fashioned. His imperious need for self-expression leads him to focus on crucial issues around the world, with startling images filtered through an ever-evolving aesthetic prism. Constantly breaking down barriers, he is, by turns, an investigator deconstructing the great sagas of contemporary life and a portraitist. His photographs of athletes, artists, ecclesiastics and politicians have become iconic. His images have earned him a number of prizes, including four prestigious World Press Awards. Following his domain of predilection, in the “Trilogy of the Moderns” he becomes the wakeful observer of his contemporaries.This marginal perspective involves real mises en scène, veritable simulacra of the world in which we live. Gérard Rancinan is an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Gérard Rancinan’s work can be compared to no other. Regarded as fine-art photography, the artist’s profession is also his means of expression and commitment. Rancinan’s photographs are not merely conditioned reflexes.They are the very instruments of his thought-process, sensitive views of the world we live in and recognised forms of contemporary art. Rancinan breaks with the conventional world of photography in order to follow a road that, although not solitary, remains unique. While his photographs are always inspired by the reality of our world nowadays, they are so much more than the mere face-value representation of such at face-value. Rancinan’s works are poetic propositions, fragments of an enlightened vision of our times.The artist likes to start with a more classic inspiration - from Velázquez to Géricault - combining it with the influence of his encounters with Robert Rauschenberg or Paul McCarthy; the result is the production of pre-meditated creations for which Rancinan alone holds the secret.
艺术风格 / Artistic Process
杰拉德·兰斯南最初以肖像摄影而闻名，他制作大型摄影作品，评论社会问题，政治，暴力和大众文化。兰斯南在十几岁做摄影记者时，报道内容涵盖战争，骚乱和自然灾害，这直接影响了他后期作品的批判基调。兰斯南的作品通常以古典叙事和代表性艺术品为基础，但是涵盖的却是当代流行文化或是戏剧化环境中的物体。自2005年以来，兰斯南与作家卡洛琳·考得瑞尔特合作创作了他的史诗系列“现代三部曲”，包括70多张摄影作品。创作主题包括对西奥多·籍里柯的《美杜莎之筏》（1818-9）和迭戈·委拉斯开兹的《宫女》（Las Meninas）（1665）的翻拍，以及以米老鼠和蝙蝠侠为主题的讽刺作品。
Gérard Rancinan, who initially became widely known for his portrait photography, produces large-scale photographic tableaux commenting on social issues, politics, violence, and popular culture. Rancinan’s career a photojournalist in his teenage years, covering wars, riots, and natural disasters, directly shaped the critical tone of his later work. Rancinan’s works are often based on classical narratives and iconic artworks, but feature contemporary pop culture figures and objects in dramatic situations. Since 2005, Rancinan has worked on his epic series “Trilogy of the Moderns” with author Caroline Gaudriault, comprised of over 70 photographs. Subjects include remakes of Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa (1818-9) and Diego Velázquez’s (1665), as well as Mickey Mouse- and Batman-themed satires.
博物馆展览 / Museum Exhibitions
2019 Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, Grand Rapids Art Museum, US
2017 Chapelle Sainte-Anne, La Baule-Escoublac, France
2016 “Scarcity of Miracle”, Base Sous-Marine, Bordeaux, France
2016 “The Destiny of Men” Parts I & II, Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany
2016 “Rancinan in Morocco” – inaugural exhibition, Montresso Art Foundation, Jardin Rouge, Marrakech,
Morocco
2016 “Divine Decadence”, an exhibition in collaboration with Mechelen-based theatre group Abattoir Fermé,
nspired by the book A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Brussels, Belgium
2016 “The Destiny of Men”, in collaboration with the author Caroline Gaudriault,Accademia delle Arti del
Disegno, Firenze, Italy
2016 ‘‘Joie deVivre’’, curated by Bruno Girveau, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France, September
2015 to January
2015 ‘‘Barry McGuigan’’,curated by Paul Ardenne, National Portrait Gallery,London, UK
2015 ‘‘The Destiny of Men’’, curated by Paul Ardenne, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France, happening 11-
14 June, 2015 ‘‘AnotherDayonEarth’’,OceanographicMuseumof Monaco, Monaco
2015 ‘‘TheTrilogy of the Moderns’’, Museum of Huelva, Spain
2014 ‘’TheTrilogy of the Moderns’’, Himalayas Art Contemporary Museum, Shanghai, China, September -
November，on the occasion of the 50th anniversary for diplomatic relations between France and China
2014 ‘‘A Small Man in a Big World ‘‘, Sinan Mansions, Shanghai, China, September - November
2013 - 2018 ‘‘The Liberty Unveiled’’ ,The Louvre Lens Museum, Lens,France
2013 - 2015 ‘‘Batman Family Boys’’, Quai d’Orsay, Ministery of Foreign affairs, Paris, France
2014 Collective exhibition with Jeff Koons,Andres Serrano, Subodh Gupta, Joel-Peter Witkin Presentation of
‘‘The Big Supper’’ curated by Jean- Jacques Aillagon, Pinault Foundation and the city of Dinard, France
2014 ‘‘A Wonderful World’’, Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
2014 ‘‘MotoPoétique’’,curatedbyPaulArdenne,Art Contemporary Museum (MAC) of Lyon, France
2013 ‘‘The feast of Barbarians’’,Arts et Métiers Museum, Paris, France
2013 ‘‘TheTrilogy of the Moderns’’, curated byVincent Polakovic, Danubiana Contemporary Art Museum of
Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 ‘‘L’Histoire est à moi !’’ Curated by Paul Ardenne, collective exhibition with Anselm Kiefer, Pierre &
Gilles, Mounir Fatmi, Contemporary Art Museum Les Abattoirs ofToulouse, France
2012 ‘‘WonderfulWorld’’,Londonewcastle Project Space, Shoreditch, London, Great Britain
2012 ‘‘TheTrilogy of the Moderns’’, Curated by Claudio De Albertis, Triennaledi Milano, Milan, Italy
2011 ‘‘Reflex Miniature Museum’’, collective exhibition with Damien Hirst, George Baselitz,Yayoi Kusama and Roy Lichtenstein Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Holland
2011 ‘’Hypothèses’’, Chapelle Saint-Sauveur, Paris/Issy les Moulineaux, France
2010 ‘‘Metamorphosis’’, The Louvre bookstore Paris, France
2010 ‘‘Decadence Now’’, collective exhibition with Damien Hirst,Andres Serrano,Cindy Sherman,Galerie
Rudolfinum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Praha, Czech Republic
2010 ‘‘150 artists for the 150 years of the Angelus of Millet’’, collective exhibition with Robert Combas, Erro,
Peter Klasen and René Monory, Barbizon, France
2009 ‘‘Métamorphosis’’, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais deTokyo, Paris, France
2009 ‘‘Le Photographe’’, Palazzio delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
2008 ‘‘The Photographer’’, Palais deTokyo, Paris
2008 ‘‘LaTrilogie du Sacré Sauvage’’,Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
2007 Barcelona Art Contemporary Museum (MACBA), Spain
2000 ‘‘Urban Jungle’’, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
画廊、摄影节、艺术市场 / Galleries, festivals, artfairs
2015 ‘‘Rancinan in Dubai’’, Opera Gallery Dubai, 2016 ‘‘Triptyque Still Lives Flower’’, Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire
2015 ‘’Extract fromWonderfulWorld’’,Art Palm Beach Miami
2014 ‘‘A Small Man in a Big World’’, Galerie Dumonteil – Shanghai
2014 ‘‘OfBloodandWater-Triptych’’,DürrenmattCenterof Neuchâtel and GalerieC, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2014 ‘‘A Small Man in a BigWorld’’,GalerieValérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
2014 ‘‘TheTrilogy ofThe Moderns’’ - Selected works, Les Inattendus de Sainte-Savine, Sainte-Savine, France
2014 Art Basel Hong Kong 2014 , Opera Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Art Brussels 2014, GalerieValérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
2014 ‘‘Rancinan XXL’’ , Opera Gallery London, United Kingdom
2013 ‘‘Rancinan in Amsterdam’’, Nieuw Dakota / Fontana Fortuna Gallery,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010-2013 ‘‘RancinanWorldTour’’,Opera Gallery Geneva,New York, Singapour, Hong Kong, Londres, Paris
2012 ‘‘Wonderful World’’
2010 ‘‘Metamorphoses &Artists Portraits‘‘ Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Hong Kong ArtFair 2010, Galerie Paris-Beijing(Paris), Hong Kong
2010 ‘‘Proyecto Genero 3’’, Espace Cultural Ample / Foundation for Contemporary Art Development,
Barcelona, Spain
2010 Art Paris 2010, GalerieValérie Bach (Brussels), Paris, France
2010 ‘‘Love or sex’’ - Collective exhibition with Robert Mappelthorpe, Speedy Graphito, JonOne, Galerie
Brugier Rigail, Paris, France
2009 Galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris, France
2009 ‘‘Specimens#’’,ShanghaiContemporaryArt2009 Galerie Albert Benamou (Paris), Shanghai, China
2009 Art Moscow 2009,GalerieAlbert Benamou (Paris), France, Moscow, Russia
2009 Art Paris 2009, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
2009 ‘‘Cardinaux’’, Galerie Lillebonne, Nancy, France
2009 ‘‘Hibakusha’’, Festival of Perpignan, France
2008 ‘‘China, Le Défi’’, Galerie 208, Paris, France
2008 ‘‘Portraits de Nathalie’’, Galerie Léo Scheer, Paris, France
2008 Art Paris 2008, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
2007 FIAC 2007,Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
2007 ‘‘Trans fashion lab’’, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
2006 ‘‘Faits divers’’ Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
2005 ‘‘Grands personnages : portraits’’, Festival of Perpignan, France
获奖 / Award
Four First Prizes at the World Press Photo Awards, in 1983, 1986 and 1988 (twice).
"Picture of the Year International" in 2004 at the POY Awards - Missouri School of Journalism, USA.
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 by the then French Minister of Culture, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.
Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti in January 2013
出版 / Publishing
Rois Sans Royaume, Éditions Nathan Image, 1986
Urban Jungle, Éditions de La Martinière, 1999
Rancinan Exploit, Edition Federico Motta, Milan, 2004
La Trilogie du Sacré Sauvage, Edition Federico Motta, Milan, 2005
The Photographer, Edition Abrams, New York, 2008
Le Photographe, Éditions de La Martinière, 2008
"Métamorphoses", conversations & natures mortes, Biro & Cohen éditeurs, 2009 (with the writer, Caroline Gaudriault)
"Hypothèses", Éditions Paradoxe, 2011 (with the writer, Caroline Gaudriault)
"Wonderful World", Éditions Paradoxe, 2012 (with the writer, Caroline Gaudriault)
"A small man in a big world", Editions Paradoxe, 2014 - with the writer Caroline Gaudriault and Francis Fukuyama