Stéphane Ducret is a Swiss contemporary artist[1] born in 1970 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and living in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2006.
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Ducret studied at the Geneva University of Art (ESAV). He was commissioned to make large-scale paintings by the Geneva Hospital (1998) and by the Geneva International Conference Center (1999) before moving to New York City. He showed his work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000) among others, and founded the Point Gallery (2000-2002).
He has shown his work at Edward Mitterrand Gallery, Geneva (2002), l’elac (2002, 2003), the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (2003, 2004, 2005), Synospsism Gallery, Lausanne (2005, 2006, 2007), FAC (Forum d’art contemporain), Sierre (2006), Centre PasquArt, Bienne (2006), he was awarded by The Fondation leenaards in 2003.
His work from 'The Rebirth of the Cool' series has a fluid geometric abstraction that reflects the “media propaganda (publicity and cinema, television and women's magazines)” that speaks about “the love at first sight, the passion (...), love with a capital letter” according to Michel Onfray » (Michel Onfray: La Puissance d’exister, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2006).
For 'The Origin of the World', Stéphane Ducret refers to the fact that people spend so little time in front of the artworks during the exhibitions… He reproduces a selection of the great masterpieces of art history in their original dimensions with a slight change: he makes all the details vanish, since only a close and longer observation of the artwork would have allowed to detect. His technique is to increase digitally the size of the pixels, decreasing their number and, at the same time, the photographic quality of the image (Technique: Lambda print on high gloss paper, fixed in between two transparent and shiny acrylic panes, 4mm each (like a sandwich), mounted on a smaller and invisible aluminum frame).