Charles petillon biography

Charles Pétillon (born 1973) is a.
Born in 1973, Charles Pétillon is an artist known for his photographs and his large-scale in situ installations.
Born (1973) and raised in France, Pétillon's passion for photography started at the early age of 11 when he was given his first camera.

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A self-taught man, researcher and photographer, Charles Pétillon (b. 1973) considers himself an image ethnologist and an archaeologist of forms. Each of his images are created in accordance with a very precise procedure and guided by an immersion into the natural environment, which is at the center of his practice. Using white balloons, Pétillon creates large-scale installations that are hauntingly beautiful. While the balloons call to mind a childlike humor and innocence, they are also somewhat threatening, hence the name of the series itself: Invasions. For Pétillon, “These balloon invasions are metaphors. Their goal is to change the way in which we see the things we live alongside each day without really noticing them. It is our way of looking at things that I am trying to transform and revive, and therefore make it possible to go beyond practical perception to aesthetic experience.”

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Charles Pétillon, Invasions at MD Gallery Shanghai

Today I would like to introduce you French photographer and instalation artist Charles Pétillon. Born (1973) and raised in France, Pétillon’s passion for photography started at the early age of 11 when he was given his first camera. Starting his editorial career in collaborating with Numero, Vogue Russia and Muse Magazine, he achieved

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"These balloon invasions are metaphors. Their purpose is to change our perspective on things that we encounter every day without paying attention."
- Charles Pétillon

Charles Pétillon excels in what we might call the art of visual haiku. With the short Japanese poems, his creations share the same inclination toward capturing a moment, toward the concise evocation of the elusive nature of the world, and the same deceptive simplicity.

His interventions in places devoid of human presence or in the great outdoors, of which his photographs constitute the record, are akin to poetic, enigmatic and neatly articulated statements. They seek to bring to consciousness incongruities, odd circumstances, paradoxes of our time. They make us aware of situations that we might tend to forget or to ignore. "These balloon invasions," says the artist, "are metaphors. Their purpose is to change our perspective on things that we encounter every day without paying attention."

One could say that the intention of the artist is to highlight the imprint of Man on his environ