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JEAN-LOUIS GARNELL

Jean-Louis Garnell (Dolo, France, 1954) started photographing in his high school days. Following his computer engineering studies in Toulouse, he worked in adult education to make a living. His first colour images date to 1983, and are a set of city landscapes of Toulouse and its environs. In 1984 he won the Kodak critics’ award and participated in the prestigious photographic expedition of Datar (Délégation à l‘Aménagement du Territoire et à l‘Action Régionale) and, in 1989 after moving to Paris, in Mission Transmanche. He has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Marseilles since 2005. He started using digital photography in 1997. He has taken part in many one-man shows and collective exhibitions at institutions and private galleries, but Garnell also takes part in important projects on public commission in Toulouse, Venice, Bordeaux and Paris. Amongst his publications, here are some volumes with indicative titles: Désordres et paysages (1989), Images modules (1999), Par le noir (2004). Amongst the many one-man shows and collective exhibitions he has participated in, some held in Italy are: Un’altra oggettività, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, 1988; L’estasi delle cose, Museo di fotografia contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, 2005; Alterazioni. La materia della fotografia tra analogico e digitale, Museo di fotografia contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, 2006. His participations in collective exhibits in 2006: Les peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dimension intérieure, Le Botanique, Brussels; Espacios reales, espacios fictios, Edificio Tabacalera, San Sebastian; Tiefenschärfe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; and La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris.