Jean-Marc Bustamante valuation
French artist who has moved between large-format photography, sculpture and screenprinted Plexiglas since the 1970s.
Jean-Marc Bustamante was born in Toulouse in 1952 and lives and works in Paris.
What a work by Jean-Marc Bustamante is worth
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Bio
Jean-Marc Bustamante was born in Toulouse in 1952 and lives and works in Paris. In the mid-1970s he was an assistant to the photographer William Klein, and from 1978 he made the Tableaux, large colour photographs of the half-built edges of towns around Barcelona, empty of people and framed like paintings; examples are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Centre Pompidou. From 1983 to 1987 he worked with Bernard Bazile under the joint signature BazileBustamante, and from then on alone, moving freely between photography, sculpture and painting. The Lumières, from 1987, are black-and-white images from architecture magazines screenprinted onto transparent Plexiglas and hung away from the wall, and the Panoramas, from 2002, are enlarged abstract ink drawings on Plexiglas. He was in documenta 8, 9 and 10, represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2003, taught at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and the Munich academy, and was director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 2015 to 2019.
The photographs and the Plexiglas works should be checked against the studio's records for title, date and edition. Plexiglas scratches and clouds, and screenprinted or inked surfaces cannot be cleaned like glass; works that stand off the wall depend on their fixings. The sculptures, in steel, wood and resin, need careful handling. Thaddaeus Ropac represents him.
Toulouse, Barcelona and the Beaux-Arts
The French pavilion of 2003, Le Pavillon des Amazones, was the first time people appeared in his photographs, set among paintings and drawings on Plexiglas.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Jeu de Paume, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
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