Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Jean-Baptiste Huynh was born in France in 1966, French mother and Vietnamese father. Self-taught, he learns photographic techniques, lighting and drawing.
The refined and timeless photographic writing of Jean-Baptiste Huynh Allows him to decline his work through various subjects: the portrait, the nude, the mineral or vegetal universe, or even the symbolic spiritual symbols of the countries in which he works. Recurring themes of his work are the gaze, the self-image, the light, the timelessness and the relationship to the infinite.
His photographic work takes shape in his exhibitions and scenography as well as in his works considered as an integral part of his projects, a complete expression of his vision. He is the author of twelve personal works.
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Exposition & Pop-Up Store Hemeria à Arles 2021
Pour la troisième année, Hemeria s’installe à Arles dans un atelier d’artisans pour une résidence hors-les-murs le temps des Rencontres. Le public arlésien est invité à découvrir les photographes qu’elle soutient au sein de ce pop up entièrement dédié à la photographie et au livre. L’occasion pour tous les amoureux du médium photographique d’échanger et de se nourrir du travail des artistes. À Arles, Hemeria montre ainsi toutes les facettes de son écosystème, à la fois maison d’édition, plateforme de crowdfunding, galerie et librairie en ligne et véritable lieu culturel. Signature du livre Structure d’Isabelle Boccon-Gibod + Vernissage >> le
« Infinis d’Asie », l’exposition et le dernier livre de Jean-Baptiste Huynh
« Devant ses images, l’évasion est totale, la contemplation immersive. Développées sur de grands formats, les notions d’échelle, de dates, de production s’échappent. Il ne reste que l’hypnose. » Maïlys Celeux-Lanval Le musée Guimet consacre jusqu’au 20 mai 2019 une exposition au photographe Jean-Baptiste Huynh. Dans le cadre de ce projet, les collections du musée ont été mises à sa disposition. Pendant les deux années de cette « résidence », il a ainsi pu librement voyager dans le temps et l’histoire, tout près des objets : des miroirs en bronze anciens au bol à thé japonais d’aujourd’hui. Infinis d’Asie est ainsi né, savant mélange
Le coffret luxe de Nature est disponible dans notre librairie
Ce coffret en édition très limitée (30 exemplaires) est composé du livre Nature, dont le papier vergé des pages de garde a été teintés dans la masse en noir ainsi que d’un coffret toilée noir. Chaque ouvrage est aussi accompagné d’un tirage de collection 25×25 cm photographié et signé par Jean-Baptiste Huynh. Le coffret est disponible ici.
Jean-Baptiste Huynh à Paris Photo
Du 8 au 11 novembre, retrouvez Jean-Baptiste Huynh à Paris Photo sur le stand Hemeria. Vous pourrez découvrir de nombreux ouvrages du photographe comme Nature, Reciprocity, Mali, Japon, Inde et Le regard à l’œuvre.
His works
Infinite Asia
The Musée Guimet devotes from 20 February to 20 May 2019 a great retrospective exhibition of the work of the Franco-Vietnamese photographer, winner of the Villa Medici. The book Infinite Asia accompanies this exhibition and presents the most salient subjects of his creations, the portrait, the nude, the mineral and the vegetal. is also shown the work he has done by appropriating the great works of Art of the Museum’s collections, always in connection with his privileged theme, the woman or at least the image of the woman, her face, her plural beauty, his gaze, which we Convinced that they are an aesthetic search for infinity.
Nature - Luxury box
– The set is presented in a black canvas box
Nature
« In Nature, the photographs of Jean-Baptiste Huynh bind the plant, the human and the celestial in mysterious formal rehearsals. (…) His sensibility is a striking classicism. His images are distilled, pure, contained and idealized. There is a platonic aspect, almost from another world, in these forms, as if the person, the plant or the fruit represented a timeless reality beyond that which is delivered to us by our senses».
This is how Siri Hustvedt, the Great American writer, in her preface, evokes the work of this French photographer, Franco-Vietnamese, who explores the natural forms and allows us tore-discover in a sublimated way the beauty of What surrounds us.
Reciprocity
Reciprocity s a book of photographs, Transversal and retrospective on the work of Jean-Baptiste Huynh. This book, intimate and elegant in its manufacture, testifies to the reciprocity of friendship and glances that Jean-Baptiste Huynh Maintained with Irving Penn and his son, Tom Penn. Tom Penn has made a selection of thirty years of work in 25 countries. He was the curator of the exhibition that accompanied the release of the book.
