Photographer Joseph Caprio sent us these images from his exhibition entitled Le trait dans la peau, along with these few words.
Evelyne Postic and I are pleased to present a work we created together, a work that suggests these are tattooed bodies. But no, Evelyne Postic drew swirls directly onto photos showing my models’ dark skin.
This exhibition is a link, a bond created between two artists, two creations, and two different worlds.
In music, when two pianists play four-handed, they simultaneously share the same emotion. Here, to create this shared score, Evelyne Postic selected from my work the pieces that speak to her, those she feels and that correspond to her, that make her want to imprint a part of her own world on them. In her studio, she faces a world that is not her own, a foreign world, which she transforms and tames by making her mark on it. In this way, she makes me look at my own work in a different light.
The work she creates will no longer be mine, will not become hers, but allows us both to enter into communion. It reminds me of a song by Françoise Hardy where she said, “From you and from me, we make both of us.” This phrase is somewhat at the genesis of this desire for communion.
Since I began, part of my personal work has aimed to highlight what I now call “masculine beauty.” By focusing on details of the body: a back, a neck, a hand… In one of the first interviews I gave, in 1986, I said that my work aimed to “rehabilitate men.” This is somewhat what I continue to do, since we primarily show the female body, whether in painting or photography.
This exhibition is also a desire to prove that two artists with different perspectives can be united. It is also a story of friendship.
Joseph Caprio : Le trait dans la peau
Until April 26, 2025
Galerie Ex-Nihilo
8 rue Servan
38000 Grenoble
www.joseph-caprio.com
