JEAN-MARC BUSTAMANTE

The first paintings by Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952 in Toulouse, France, lives and works in Paris) based off of photographs marked the beginning of this medium in the art field. Bustamante experiments with a wide variety of media, creating innovative visual suggestions. He is very attached to how the eye views the work for a mental or even psychological perception of the world. The artist has borrowed vocabulary from the specifics of photography crossing the disciplines of sculpture, painting, where he now focuses his efforts. When starting a new painting he begins with a drawing, which acts as a stencil. This process is used for each one of his works. Transformed and projected, the paint is dissolved in the color of the inks, on the surface of the transparent support that absorbs it. Bustamante represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and participated in Documenta 8, 9, and 10.