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Gilles Mazzufferi

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Gilles Mazzufferi(Gilles)

Concept

For several years now, I have focused my pictorial activity on the imaginary world of forests.
It is in the forest that my drawings are developed, a place of catharsis where the three elements reigns; mineral, plant and animal intermingle, a space where the human psyche confronts itself.
This plac...
For several years now, I have focused my pictorial activity on the imaginary world of forests.
It is in the forest that my drawings are developed, a place of catharsis where the three elements reigns; mineral, plant and animal intermingle, a space where the human psyche confronts itself.
This place (topos) becomes the scene of the collective unconscious, the cultural imaginary at its roots in this collective unconscious, which slips into our dreams, and our psyche identifies the forest as a great image of our unconscious.
The symbolic image of the forest is closely linked to the man-image-body constellation, and its etymology is significant, since the Latin word “foresti, foresta” means “outside”, “away” and it is all the stake of this metonymy, the conscious is put aside, outside the unconscious, the man is put aside, outside the forests.
The forest is not just one symbol among many; it is the symbol of symbolism.
And I would like to quote an author who shed light on the imaginary world of forests in his essay on the Western imagination, published by Champs / Flammarion, Robert Harrison (page 287) ... We generally translate the Greek word logos by language, but originally it means relationship ... it connects men to nature in the mode of openness and difference. It is in him that we inhabit and through him that we enter into relationship with such and such a place. Without logos there is no place, there is only habitat, nothing but niche, no residence, nothing but sustenance. In short, the logos is what man makes his home on earth. This domicile is designated by the word
"Ecology". In Greek, oikos means house, domicile the Latin domus. Thus the word ecology designates much more than the science of ecosystems; it designates being to the universal human world ... We do not reside in nature, but in our relationship to nature. We do not inhabit the earth, but its overtaking. We do not live in the forest, but in an area outside its fence.
Today all my work as a plastic artist is based on the fragility of this consequence: the forgetting of this exclusion that has existed for millennia between man and the forest and which is complicit in its destruction.
Just as the conscious perceives itself outside the unconscious because we think we exist outside of ourselves -projection- I would like to reintroduce not man into the forest but the forest into man.

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“Gilles Mazzufferi's Artworks”

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the struggle I

USD 648.00 Year.2021 w33.00 x h41.00 x d5.00 cm

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Outside

USD 1,026.00 Year.2018 w56.00 x h76.00 x d0.10 cm

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the struggle II

USD 324.00 Year.2021 w21.00 x h29.00 x d2.00 cm

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journey into the unknown

USD 500.00 Year.2021 w23.00 x h29.00 x d3.00 cm

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Strange, foreigner.

USD 518.40 Year.2021 w23.00 x h30.00 x d3.00 cm

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Biography

In the backseat of my parents' car, while the landscape passed ... monotonous; a question kept coming back to my mind: "when I am dead: will it be forever?" ".
Then, the words "always" and "never" rolled in my head like two magnets ...
From that day on, I decided to lead my ship into the art world...
In the backseat of my parents' car, while the landscape passed ... monotonous; a question kept coming back to my mind: "when I am dead: will it be forever?" ".
Then, the words "always" and "never" rolled in my head like two magnets ...
From that day on, I decided to lead my ship into the art world, to constantly renew or escape this idea of ​​finitude.
The different passages; between the light of the photographic studio and the darkness of the laboratory, between the identified object and the material revealed but also between verticality and horizontality during my musical studies: will be only a da capo on my first existential outpourings of childhood.
It will always be two polarity that oscillate to intersect but never really oppose each other because in my eyes, the center is a moving chord.
I began to maintain an intuitive relationship with image by working as a developer, shooter, retoucher in a photographic laboratory.
I worked alone in the darkroom, the darkness was total and my only anchor was the enlarger light and the chemistry of the baths.
Knowing that the success of a print depends on the exposure time, the gesture lost in the dark made me feel that the image was floating like a daydream.
After training in industrial photography and studying musical composition at the Auxerre conservatory with Jean-Marc Singier (Villa Médicis and diapason d'or), I invested in the work and writings of analyst Carl-Gustave Jung and animated music therapy and psychotherapy workshops under the direction of Maya Blache.
Other authors like Roland Barthes, Mircea Eliade, Gaston Bachelard, have deeply embodied what my intuitions and feelings of youth tried to perceive of this moving world.
My artistic approach is nourished by three different universes, associating its reference fields in order to feed my research.
1 - The human sciences with disciplines such as mythology and analytical psychology.
2 - the world of dreams, its collective visions as well as its “symbolism”.
3 - the animal, mineral and plant world that I explore like an amateur naturalist by arranging each element according to their nature.

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Group Exhibitions

2021 Edition Avalanche III, publication with the support of the D.R.A.C and F.R.A.C Haut de France. False semblant, with Yvonne Calsou, Galerie Openbach Paris 13.
2020 Group exhibition - Espace d'Art Chaillioux, Fresnes.
2019 Macparis, Paris.
2013 Balt’art Contemporary art fair, Pavillon Baltard, Nogent-sur-Marne.
2010 Collaborative work with the visual artist Georgia Russell, Contempory by Angela Li, Hong-Kong.
2008 Photographic performance Galerie Electra / EDF - and Center d'Art le Plateau / DRAC, with artist Yann Thomas, Paris.
2007 From one marsh to another, collaborative work with painter Valérie Gavaud Poitiers Regional Council.
2004 Psyche or behind the scenes, photography, Cinema Barbizon, Paris Museum intrusion, photography, History Museum, Saint-Denis.

Solo Exhibitions

2021 "Figures of nature" the plastic arts spaces workshop, Mitry Mory.
2012 PlastiForm, Here Montreuil, Montreuil-sous-Bois.
2003 Détours, photo reportage on West Africa, La maison, Coulanges. Dream dyslexia, photomontage on negatives, Vézelay Tourist Office.
2002 Musicians from elsewhere, photography, Harmonia Mundi, Valence.

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