MARC DESGRANDCHAMPS
(Born in Sallanches in 1960. Lives and works in Lyon)

Made with pale hues of liquid, dripping paint, his near-transparent images feel like ghosts or partly forgotten memories that populate a no-man’s land inhabited by figures and buildings lacking a specific identity.

Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges - Villa triste, Patrick Modiano - Ecrits intimes, Roger Vailland -1984, George Orwell – Demons, Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Light in August, William Faulkner – The Garden of the Fitzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassani - Les Géorgiques, Claude Simon - Gradiva, W. Jensen, with Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘Delusion and Dream’ - Aurélien, Louis Aragon - Le feu follet, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle – The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides – Them Bones, Howard Waldrop – City, Clifford D. Simak – Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut – Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert - On a marché sur la Lande, Arno Schmidt - La Peinture et le Mal, Jacques Henric - Le Devenir-Cochon, Wim Delvoye - Les Gens du Raval, Joan Colon - Reproduction du tableau de Diane et Actéon, Pierre Klossowski - Photographs, Malick Sidibé - Czech Vision - portrait of Walter Benjamin in Ritrati d’autore, Gisèle Freund - detail of tryptch The Temptation of Saint Anthony in Exile in Amsterdam, Max Beckmann - photo of Venice, San Zaccharia, in Museum Photographs, Thomas Struth - photo of New Mexico in Southwest, Paul Strand.

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