Stéphane Couturier Photography
b. 1957
Stéphane Couturier is a French contemporary artist and photographer, born in 1957, in Neuilly Sur Seine, France. He currently lives and works in Paris. In 1994, he showed his first works in a series, called Urban Archaeology, viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately, avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 onwards, Stéphane was increasingly drawn to the suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape. On the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his Monuments series and on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments. These generic cities soon became his favorite subject. In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych, the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with Landscaping, with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction. With a new body of work, called Melting Point, Stéphane changed his visual approach in 2005. This series presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes, France. It also evolved with new subjects, like the Indian city of Chandigarh, built by Le Corbusier and the Brazilian city of Brasilia, built by Oscar Niemeyer, from 2007–10.
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Artist: Stéphane Couturier
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #01 – Stéphane Couturier, Art, Photography
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #01, 2020
C-Print
Sheet 120 x 166 cm (47 1/4 x 65 3/8 in.)
Edition of 5 (#2/5)
Framed print
Born in 1957 in Neuil...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #03 – Stéphane Couturier, Art, Photography
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #03, 2020
C-Print
Sheet 120 x 90 cm (47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in.)
Edition of 5 (#2/5)
Framed print
Born in 1957 in Neuilly...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #02 – Stéphane Couturier, Art, Photography
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Angers – Chant de l'Apocalypse #02, 2020
C-Print
Sheet 120 x 160 cm (47 1/4 x 63 in.)
Edition of 5 (#2/5)
Framed print
Born in 1957 in Neuilly s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Reims – Champagne – From Lurçat's point of view – Stéphane Couturier, Tapestry
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Reims – Champagne – From Lurçat's point of view, 2023
Archival pigment print
Sheet 80 x 87 cm (31 1/2 x 34 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5 (#1/5)
Framed pri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reims – Halles du Boulingrin – From Knoebel's point of view #1 – Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Reims – Halles du Boulingrin – From Knoebel's point of view #1, 2023
Archival pigment print
Sheet 100 x 142 cm (39 3/8 x 55 7/8 in.)
Edition of 5 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reims – Halles du Boulingrin – From Knoebel's point of view #2 – Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Reims – Halles du Boulingrin – From Knoebel's point of view #2, 2023
Archival pigment print
Sheet 80 x 84.5 cm (31 1/2 x 33 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5 (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Reims – Quartier Croix-Rouge – From Vasarely's point of view – Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Reims – Quartier Croix-Rouge – From Vasarely's point of view, 2023
Archival pigment print
Sheet 100 x 133 cm (39 3/8 x 52 3/8 in.)
Edition of 5 (#1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #8 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #8, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 80 x 108 cm cm (31 1/2 x 42 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5 (#1/5)
Framed print
Born in 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #10 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #10, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 110 x 80 cm (43 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5 (#1/5)
Framed print
Born in 195...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #8 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #8, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 100 x 135 cm (39 3/8 x 53 1/8 in.)
Edition of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #2 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #2, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 80 x 96 cm (31 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.)
Edition of 5 (#4/5)
Framed print
Born in 1957 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #4 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #4, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 100 x 143 cm (39 3/8 x 56 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5
Framed print
Born in 1957 in Ne...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #6 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
E1027+ 123 – Villa Eileen Gray – Photo #6, 2021-2022
C-Print
Sheet 110 x 76 cm (43 1/4 x 29 7/8 in.)
Edition of 5
Framed print
Born in 1957 in Neu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Titanic n°1 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Titanic n°1, 2013-2015
C-print in Artist's frame
160 x 160 cm (63 x 63 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 2/5
B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #10 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #10, 2018
C-print in Artist's frame
Image 125 x 166.6 cm (49 1/4 x 65 5/8 in.)
Sheet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°10 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°10, 2015
C-print in Artist's frame
120 x 153 cm (47 1/4 x 60 1/4 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 1/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Alger
In his latest series, which was created over a period of more than three years, Stéphane Couturier explores, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the ‘Climat de France’ housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algiers. Built in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Climat de France – Polyptique – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Climat de France – Polyptique, 2015
C-print, Installation
Panels (6x) 250 x 32 x 16.5 cm (98 3/8 x 12 6 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°2 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°2, 2018
Cibachrome, framed to artist's specification
69 x 52 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Edition of 4; Ed. n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #08 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #08, 2018
C-print in Artist's frame
Image 125 x 166.7 cm (49 1/4 x 65 5/8 in.)
Sheet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Usine Toyota n°9 (Valenciennes) – Stéphane Couturier, Toyota, Car Factory, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Usine Toyota n°9 (Valenciennes), 2005
Sheet 182 x 241 cm (71 5/8 x 94 7/8 in.)
Frame 189 x 241 cm (74 3/8 x 97 5/8 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 3/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych: the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with 'Landscaping' (the title of a new series), with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction.
WStéphane Couturier series ‘Melting Point’ presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes (France). Emphasizing the cycles of construction and demolition endemic to modern industrialized life, the photographs possess dynamic vertical and horizontal lines, elegant curves, and brilliant effects of light and indigenous colour. Using a large-format camera, Couturier creates crisply detailed prints that expand the viewer’s awareness of how a photograph can look and how urban occurrences can be conceptualized. Each picture is printed from a sandwiching of two moments in time, creating highly abstract yet precisely detailed images. People, machines, car parts, wires and more all compete for the viewer’s attention—images of industry simultaneously out of control and in perfect harmony.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Car Factory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #14 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #14, 2018
C-print
Image 95 x 139.5 cm (37 3/8 x 54 7/8 in.)
Sheet 98 x 142.5 cm (38 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Usine Toyota n°1 (Valenciennes) – Stéphane Couturier, Toyota, Car Factory, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
SStéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Usine Toyota n°1 (Valenciennes), 2005
C-Print with Diasec Face in Artist's Frame
Sheet 182 x 240.5 cm (71 5/8 x 94 5/8 in.)
Frame 189 x 247.5 cm (74 3/8 x 97 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 2/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych: the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with 'Landscaping' (the title of a new series), with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction.
WStéphane Couturier series ‘Melting Point’ presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes (France). Emphasizing the cycles of construction and demolition endemic to modern industrialized life, the photographs possess dynamic vertical and horizontal lines, elegant curves, and brilliant effects of light and indigenous colour. Using a large-format camera, Couturier creates crisply detailed prints that expand the viewer’s awareness of how a photograph can look and how urban occurrences can be conceptualized. Each picture is printed from a sandwiching of two moments in time, creating highly abstract yet precisely detailed images. People, machines, car parts, wires and more all compete for the viewer’s attention—images of industry simultaneously out of control and in perfect harmony.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Car Factory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Pont Sadi-Carnot n°2 – Stéphane Couturier
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Pont Sadi-Carnot n°2, 2018
C-print, framed to artist's specification
140 x 99 cm (55 1/8 x 39 in.)
Edition of 5;...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Bab El Oued n°2 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Cityscape, Ocean
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Bab El Oued n°2, 2013
C-print with Diasec face in Artist's frame
140 x 300 cm (55 1/8 x 118 1/8 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 4/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Alger
In his latest series, which was created over a period of more than three years, Stéphane Couturier explores, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the ‘Climat de France’ housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algiers. Built in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Tour Pleyel n°1 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Tour Pleyel n°1, 2018
Cibachrome, framed to artist's specification
Sheet 80 x 48 cm (31 1/2 x 18 7/8 in.)
Frame 84 x 52...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°11 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°11, 2017
C-print in Artist's frame
50 x 39 cm (19 5/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
Edition of 8; Ed. no. 2/8
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Alger
In his latest series, which was created over a period of more than three years, Stéphane Couturier explores, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the ‘Climat de France’ housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algiers. Built in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°2 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Alger – Bab El Oued – Melting Point n°2, 2015
C-print in Artist's frame
180 x 152 cm (70 7/8 x 59 7/8 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 2/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Alger
In his latest series, which was created over a period of more than three years, Stéphane Couturier explores, in highly aesthetic and, at the same time, socially ambitious photos and videos, the ‘Climat de France’ housing project – today called Oued Koriche – in Algiers. Built in the International Style in the 1950s and based on a design by French architect Fernand Pouillon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°3 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°3, 2018
Cibachrome, framed to artist's specification
69 x 52 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Edition of 4; Ed. no. 2/4
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Les Nouveaux Constructeurs
At the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot (France), Stéphane Couturier intensively studied the work of Fernand Léger, one of the Master of Modern painting in France in the early 20th century. Léger paid particular attention to the upheavals of his time. Alongside the city, the transformation of man through machine and mass production was the central theme of his works, which, starting from the formal experiments of the Cubists, found their own artistic expression, combining Cubist avant-garde with Communist commitment. ‘I have become aware of the many elements that bring me closer to him - his fascination for the city, for industrial elements, for architecture, for the geometry of forms...’, comments Stéphane Couturier on his examination of Léger's work. When photographs of cityscapes and industrial architecture are combined with the painter's compositions, the principle of superimposing two images, which the photographer has developed into an essential element of his art in recent years, is taken to a new level. The encounter of two different and yet closely related, because architectural structures, leads to works that are both painterly photographs and photographic paintings. Constructively and constructively, these works depict the reality as seen, yet go beyond the merely visible. Not images, but pictures that have their own reality. Photographed as cibachromes and fitted into a black object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°4 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Port n°4, 2018
Cibachrome, framed to artist's specification
69 x 52 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
Edition of 4; Ed. no. 2/4
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
– Les Nouveaux Constructeurs
At the invitation of Julie Gutierrez, curator of the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot (France), Stéphane Couturier intensively studied the work of Fernand Léger, one of the Master of Modern painting in France in the early 20th century. Léger paid particular attention to the upheavals of his time. Alongside the city, the transformation of man through machine and mass production was the central theme of his works, which, starting from the formal experiments of the Cubists, found their own artistic expression, combining Cubist avant-garde with Communist commitment. ‘I have become aware of the many elements that bring me closer to him - his fascination for the city, for industrial elements, for architecture, for the geometry of forms...’, comments Stéphane Couturier on his examination of Léger's work. When photographs of cityscapes and industrial architecture are combined with the painter's compositions, the principle of superimposing two images, which the photographer has developed into an essential element of his art in recent years, is taken to a new level. The encounter of two different and yet closely related, because architectural structures, leads to works that are both painterly photographs and photographic paintings. Constructively and constructively, these works depict the reality as seen, yet go beyond the merely visible. Not images, but pictures that have their own reality. Photographed as cibachromes and fitted into a black object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Pont Sadi-Carnot n°9 – Stéphane Couturier
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète – Pont Sadi-Carnot n°9, 2018
Cibachrome, framed to artist's specification
50 x 70 cm (19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
Edition...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète Sadi Carnot-01 – Stéphane Couturier, Geometry
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète Sadi Carnot-01, 2018
Cibachrome
Sheet: 59 x 70 cm (23 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
Frame: 63 x 74 x 4 cm (24 3/4 x 29 1/8 x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
Color
Usine Toyota n°5 (Valenciennes) – Stéphane Couturier, Toyota, Car Factory, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Usine Toyota n°9 (Valenciennes), 2005
Sheet 180 x 248.2 cm (70 7/8 x 97 3/4 in.)
Frame 187 x 255.2 c (73 7/8 x 100 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 4/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych: the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with 'Landscaping' (the title of a new series), with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction.
WStéphane Couturier series ‘Melting Point’ presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes (France). Emphasizing the cycles of construction and demolition endemic to modern industrialized life, the photographs possess dynamic vertical and horizontal lines, elegant curves, and brilliant effects of light and indigenous colour. Using a large-format camera, Couturier creates crisply detailed prints that expand the viewer’s awareness of how a photograph can look and how urban occurrences can be conceptualized. Each picture is printed from a sandwiching of two moments in time, creating highly abstract yet precisely detailed images. People, machines, car parts, wires and more all compete for the viewer’s attention—images of industry simultaneously out of control and in perfect harmony.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Car Factory...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Usine Toyota n°15 (Valenciennes) – Stéphane Couturier, Toyota, Factory, Car Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Usine Toyota n°15 (Valenciennes), 2005
Sheet 182 x 236 cm ( 71 5/8 x 92 7/8 in.)
Frame 189 x 243 cm (74 3/8 x 95 5/8 in...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Usine Toyota n°18 (Valenciennes) – Stéphane Couturier, Toyota, Car Factory, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Usine Toyota n°18 (Valenciennes), 2005
C-Print with Diasec Face in Artist's Frame
Sheet 182 x 246.4 cm (71 5/8 x 97 in.)
Frame 189 x 253.4 cm (74 3/8 x 99 3/4 in.)
Edition of 5; Ed. no. 2/5
Framed
Born in 1957 in Neuilly sur Seine, Stéphane Couturier currently lives and works in Paris.
In 1994, Stéphane Couturier showed his first works in a series called 'Urban Archaeology', viewing the city as a living organism with multiple aspects. He photographed it deliberately avoiding anything that suggested poetry, nostalgia or strangeness. From 1999 on, Stéphane Couturier was increasingly drawn to suburbs and began to focus on a different type of landscape: on the one hand, by tackling housing blocks and high-rises in his 'Monuments' series; on the other, by photographing mushrooming housing developments.These generic cities soon became his favorite subject.
In 2002, the uniformity and repetitiveness of these landscapes around the world drove him to begin working on the concept of the polyptych: the combinations and interchangeability of each of the elements in a polyptych give rise to a play with 'Landscaping' (the title of a new series), with the spectator recomposing a landscape between reality and fiction.
WStéphane Couturier series ‘Melting Point’ presents a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes (France). Emphasizing the cycles of construction and demolition endemic to modern industrialized life, the photographs possess dynamic vertical and horizontal lines, elegant curves, and brilliant effects of light and indigenous colour. Using a large-format camera, Couturier creates crisply detailed prints that expand the viewer’s awareness of how a photograph can look and how urban occurrences can be conceptualized. Each picture is printed from a sandwiching of two moments in time, creating highly abstract yet precisely detailed images. People, machines, car parts, wires and more all compete for the viewer’s attention—images of industry simultaneously out of control and in perfect harmony.
– Art, Contemporary, Colour, Architecture, Photography, Geometry, Graphics, Structured, Pattern, Car Factory...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Vuitton-01 – Stéphane Couturier, Art, Pattern
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Vuitton-01, 2019
Cibachrome
Sheet: 70 x 56 cm (27 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 22 in.)
Frame: 74 x ...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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Color
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #03 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #03, 2018
C-print
Image: 125 x 139.3 cm (49 1/4 x 54 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 130 x 144.3 cm (51 1...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Semapa Paris – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Semapa Paris, 2019
C-print
Sheet: 60 x 46 cm (23 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
Edition of 4; Ed. ...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #12 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #12, 2018
C-print
Image: 160 x 126.2 cm (63 x 49 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 165 x 131.2 cm (65 x 51 ...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #17 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #17, 2018
C-print
Image: 95.7 x 109 cm (37 5/8 x 42 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 98.7 x 112 cm (38 7/8...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète Sadi Carnot-10 – Stéphane Couturier, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs, Sète Sadi Carnot-10, 2018
Cibachrome, 2018
Sheet: 65 x 48 cm (25 5/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
Fram: 69 x 52 x 4 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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Color
Sète –Melting Point – Photo #15 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art, Colour
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Sète – Melting Point – Photo #15, 2018
C-print
Image: 95 x 126.7 cm (37 3/8 x 49 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 98 x 129.7 cm (38 5/...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
Materials
C Print
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs Sète Port-01 – Stéphane Couturier, Architecture, Art
By Stéphane Couturier
Located in Zurich, CH
Stéphane COUTURIER (*1957, France)
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs Sète Port-01, 2018
Cibachrome
Sheet: 69 x 51.5 cm (27 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.)
Frame: 73 x 55.5 x 4 cm (28 3/4 x 21 7/8 x 1 5/8...
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2010s Contemporary Stéphane Couturier Photography
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Color
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