Edition 2008
Pierre GONNORD
Born in 1963 in Cholet, France.
Lives and works in Madrid since 1988.
Lives and works in Madrid since 1988.
Pierre Gonnord was born in 1963 in Cholet, France. He has been living in Madrid since 1988.
A self-taught photographer, Gonnord came to the discipline as a teenager passionately interested in painted and photographic portraits.
Late in 1998 he began work on the human face, with the series Regards and City offering portraits of young people in urban situations. Winning a grant from the French Association for Art Action (AFAA), he spent 2002–03 in Japan: this was a time of transition during which he made portraits of young people from the suburbs, but also of yakuzas, onnagatas, geishas and inhabitants of other hermetically closed worlds. In 2004 he began investigating people leading marginal lives for reasons in some cases social or ideological and in others physical or psychological. At the invitation of the Cité Internationale des Arts, he continued these explorations in Paris in 2005. He then moved on to his current project, looking into the lives of such communities as the Gypsies of Andalusia and immigrants from the Balkans in Madrid.
His portraits have recently been shown in solo exhibitions at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2005), the Seville Fine Arts Museum (2006), Casa Asia, Barcelona (2006), the Santander Fine Arts Museum (2007) and the Photography Centre in Salamanca (2008).
Pierre Gonnord is represented by the Juana de Aizpuru gallery, Madrid and the France’s National Collection of Contemporary Art (FNAC).
www.pierregonnord.com
A self-taught photographer, Gonnord came to the discipline as a teenager passionately interested in painted and photographic portraits.
Late in 1998 he began work on the human face, with the series Regards and City offering portraits of young people in urban situations. Winning a grant from the French Association for Art Action (AFAA), he spent 2002–03 in Japan: this was a time of transition during which he made portraits of young people from the suburbs, but also of yakuzas, onnagatas, geishas and inhabitants of other hermetically closed worlds. In 2004 he began investigating people leading marginal lives for reasons in some cases social or ideological and in others physical or psychological. At the invitation of the Cité Internationale des Arts, he continued these explorations in Paris in 2005. He then moved on to his current project, looking into the lives of such communities as the Gypsies of Andalusia and immigrants from the Balkans in Madrid.
His portraits have recently been shown in solo exhibitions at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2005), the Seville Fine Arts Museum (2006), Casa Asia, Barcelona (2006), the Santander Fine Arts Museum (2007) and the Photography Centre in Salamanca (2008).
Pierre Gonnord is represented by the Juana de Aizpuru gallery, Madrid and the France’s National Collection of Contemporary Art (FNAC).
www.pierregonnord.com
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