Galerie Christophe Gaillard Brussels is delighted to announce its second exhibition in Brussels: this time devoted to the French contemporary artist Stephane Couturier, whose diverse work was recently on view in Reims, co-organised by the Jeu de Paume Paris. In Brussels, the exhibition will present an overview of his photographic works over the last 20 years. We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery to discover Couturier’s fascinating work!
Stéphane Couturier, born in 1957, began his career in his native Paris in the early 1990s. No matter the location that attracts his interest, the photographer manages to construct compositions that flirt with abstraction, often characterised by geometric shapes and the juxtaposition of different photographs. At the same time, reality permeates every pore of Stéphane Couturier’s photographic universe, but it doesn’t so much represent a mirror as a woven, or more precisely, an interlacing of openwork screens. In his ceaseless exploration of different urban landscapes, the artist seeks to highlight the invisible framework of the sites he discovers.
‘I take ideas, I knead them, I superimpose them, I recycle them, I let them rest for a few years, and then they’re ready to work for me,’
The exhibition will provide an overview of his work from 2005 to the present day. Visitors will be able to (re)discover series such as Toyota (2005), Chandigargh (2006-2007), Alstom (2009), Sète (2018) and his recent work on the iconic Eileen Gray villa (2021 - 2022).
His photographs can be found in more than 50 major museum and corporate collections around the world, including the Musée de l’Elysée, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée du Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg. Couturier has also been awarded the Nicéphore Niepce Prize in 2003, the City of Paris Scholarship in 1999 and the Paris-Photo Prize in 1998, to name but a few.
