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Sébastien de Ganay portraits and sculptures
onestar press (osp monos)
December 2004
29 x 18,5 cm, 112 pages, full color, hard-cover
Sébastien de Ganay’s almost life-sized full body portraits consist of his trademark folds of plastic that literally create waves of relief--there is a balanced push-pull, background-foreground figure effect that is supported by the luminous white void on which all the figures float. They sometimes read as sculptures. On the other hand, the walls, cubes, cylinders, and circles of de Ganay’s sculptures, with their bright car-paint monochromes and curved or straight geometric picture planes, foreground their viewers almost like the figures in his portraits against their white voids. They sometimes read as paintings. This comprehensive full-color volume of de Ganay’s portraits and sculptures includes an insightful essay on his work, as well as an interview with the artist.
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Windows
onestar press (onestar press movies by artists)
Published November 2002
This book was originally published to accompany the movie "Windows" by Siegrun Appelt
Book design : Sébastien de Ganay
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Killing time
onestar press
Published April 2001
Gratter, défigurer, détruire une image est un geste lourd pour celui qui le commet comme peut-être aussi pour celui qui constate le geste iconoclaste. La destruction partielle d'une photographie si celle-ci reproduit le visage humain simule une atteinte, un geste contre la personne photographiée. Mais elle est surtout la perte d'une référence spatiale et temporelle, de l'instant gravé, pour toujours, autour duquel la mémoire s'organise.
La douleur c'est justement la perte de ce qui était enregistré, l'impossible retour en arrière puisqu'il n'y a plus de quoi ancrer le souvenir.
Layout and alteration: Sébastien de Ganay