User:Djamel Tatah
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Djamel Tatah is a contemporary artist, born in 1959 [France].
He made his studies in the Beaux-Arts School of Saint-Etienne in 1981- 1986.
He lives and works in Paris.
== Work ==
Attentive to the questions of the contemporary representation in painting, Tatah develops a pictural work using technics like paint with wax, photography and current numerisation. Since the begining, he places in coloured spaces which have unequal textures, human figures at a scale of 1:1. In 1990 the backgroungs of his paintings become uncluttered and the colors more intense. The work evoluates toward a simplification of decoration's elements (architectures, furnitures, accessories) which are now coloured geometrical's forms. The most singular and anecdotic's elements of those figures are voluntarily neutralized by a specified pictural traitement. Photography, numerisation, fragmentation, recombination and projection on canvas are many ways to dematerialize the figures which are reduced to the state of being a trace. His attention concentrates then on the bodie's positions, on the gestures and the figure's attitudes. Invested with another matter (subject), the figures are coming back, present again, through this act of painting. Since 1996, he produces some large paintings on which the same figure is repeated indefinitely. Instead of changing forms and subjects, Djamel Tatah's painting appears to favour (to privilege) the repetition's process and to propose a relationship of co-presence with the viewer. This work wonders about the possibility for the painting to realize an abstract representation of human being.
==Selected Exhibitions==
▪ 2007 :
▪ "Air de Paris", Georges Pompidou Center, Paris.
▪ Contemporary Art Center "Le Parvis", Tarbes, France.
▪ 2006 :
▪ Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris.
▪ "La Force de l'art", Grand Palais, Paris.
▪ 2002 :
▪ Durand-Dessert Gallery Paris.
▪ Contemporary Art Center, Salamanca, Spain.
▪ 1999 : Durand-Dessert Gallery, Paris.
▪ 1996 : "Women from Alger", Chapelle Saint-Jacques, Saint-Gaudens France.
▪ 1992 :
▪ Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France.
▪ Tachellès, Berlin, Germany.
==Selected Publications==
▪ Painting people, the state of the art, Charlotte Mullins, ed : Thames & Hudson, London, 2006.
▪ Modern and contemporary Art, Serge Lemoine (Dir.), Figurations, Erik Verhagen, ed : Larousse, Paris, 2006.
▪ Djamel Tatah, Bident Christophe, Stéhlé-Akhtar Barbara, ed : Paris Musées et Actes Sud, 2004.
▪ Djamel Tatah, Eric de Chassey, ed : Contemporary Art Center, Spain, 2002.
▪ Vitamin P. new perspectives in painting, Eric de Chassey, « Djamel Tatah », ed :Phaidon, 2002.
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