Portrait of Philippe Starck
I had already photographed Philippe several times, and I wanted to do a portrait of him again to include him in my latest works.
Starting from a portrait I had made of him, decked with Spok’s ears, I imagined a triptych making him travel in space.
I discovered a review of the 30s-40s where a rocket that strongly resembled the lemon squeezer designed by my friend Philippe.
I asked him if he had ever seen this ship, he said no, and he had drawn his juicer on the tablecloth of a bistro!
The rapprochement is obvious.
After drawing the two side panels of the triptych, I realized with horror that Philippe wore for the portrait on a white background, a black tuxedo and black bow tie, too much with the drawings.
Philippe returned posed, very nicely, with white shirt and white bow tie this time, the day before his wedding !!
I will create a porthole in the ship so that we can see his wife Jasmine, inside the ship.
Have a great honeymoon!
Thanks to you two.
Portrait of the Hermès
I had a lot of respect and admiration for Mr. Jean-Louis Dumas, for the man, but also for his brand. As much as for Monsieur Henry Racamier and Louis Vuitton Malletier. One day, there is ………, I received a photograph of Mr. Dumas and myself, we shook hands with a smile, accompanied by a written word from his hand.
I was very flattered, but Mr. Racamier made him understand that he did not want me to work with Hermes.
I knew he was enjoying himself a lot, so I bowed. It is true that I always considered Vuitton as my own family, as it continued to be after the arrival of Mr. Bernard Arnault.
Twenty years later, I was asked to make a portrait of Pierre-Alexis Dumas, and his cousin, Pascale Mussard.
In memory of a big party they gave, where all the guests were dressed with a dancer’s tutu, they too are in my portrait, dressed in a big tutu, to the Mr. and Mrs. Loyale, a little conjurer.
The next day while looking at the (4X5 inches) contact sheets I was transported to a sequence of a Charlie Chaplin movie. I animated them, image after image. We were really in a Charlot movie!
This portrait is a diptych, on one side the portrait in black and white, on the other the video.
Portrait of Jacques Monory -1-
First meeting with his work at the Biennale of Paris where I presented a short film which Jean-Luc Godard would use by incorporating a segment of it in his film “Far from Vietnam”.
His large blue canvases interested me and questioned me. BD? Hyperrealism?
New meeting, 30 or 40 years later at a dinner. I like his face and his hat, I offered to do his portrait and he agreed.
See you in my workshop. A painter and his hat.
During breaks, he flips through the newspaper. I also photograph him during these breaks.
In this diptych, one of the photos is his face, the other the hat.
I animated the photos of him waiting, and inserted the animation in the ribbon of his headdress, and there it is really him!
And above all, it’s the only blue-gray element like his work.
Portrait of Jacques Monory -2-
After making the portrait of Monory on a white background, I could not resist the urge to photograph with a different light and on a black background.
I had planned that the second panel of the diptych be an animation of his hat, that I would move in a horizontal band.
I learned that Monory himself had made a film where his hat fluttered from place to place. I was unhappy to hear that he had already had this idea, but at the same time comforted to see that I was not mistaken!
Subsequently this diptych became a triptych, making the animation of the hat more interesting.
