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Biography
Artist
Éric Bourret
Eric Bourret was born in Paris in 1964. He discovered photography in 1979 during
an astronomy class in the Aveyron region (France). Already a walker as a young man
in the forests nearby Paris, he took on his first long hike in 1984 through the SainteVictoire and Sainte-Baume mountains. In 1994, he began exhibiting his photographs
at the Photographic Museum in Helsinki (Finland) and at the museum of Saint-Diédes-Vosges. Since then, his photographic projects, exhibitions and hiking trips lasting
sometimes several weeks have been following each other, always closely connected
- through the mountain, the plain or the city, from the pre-Islamic sites in the Middle
East to the Scottish coastline, from the mountains in Provence to Roissy-en-France
and to the Himalayas which he discovered in 2002 and where he returns now regularly.
As a photographer-walker, Eric Bourret refuses to separate the two activities ; the
physical effort and the discovery of the landscape through a progressive gaze allow him
to construct slowly his images, both in stillness and movement. In his photographs,
landscape contrasts with mankind, geological time with human time, and the movement
of the walker with the permanence of the stone and the silence of the mountains.
Eric Bourret lives, walks and photographs in Marseille, in the Alps and in the Himalayas.
His work is part of many public and private collections and museums in Europe and in
the United States.
Solo (*) and group shows,
hikes associated to the
artist’s project
(selection 2015-2006)
2015
La montagne magique, Heuberg 24 & Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Bâle, Suisse
Montmajour Abbey, 2015, Arles, France (*)
Personal Structures - Crossing Borders, 56th Venice Art Biennal, Italy
Éric Bourret 2006-2014 / “Et l’espace fera de moi un être humain”, Ziem Museum,
Martigues, France (*)
Timescape, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France (*)
L’expérience de la marche - l’expérience du visible, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles (*)
Biennial of the Frontiers, Tamaulipas Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico
Nuit(s), Musée de la Photographie A.Villers, Mougins, France (*)
Marche hivernale dans le massif des Ecrins, France
Traversée de printemps sur l’Océan Atlantique
2014
Quand la matière prend forme, Musée Départemental, Gap, France
White, Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles-Grenoble, France
L’Origine du monde, Galerie J.Greset, Besançon - Espace Zéro, l’infini, Étuz L’esprit
du lieu (1), Centre d’Art le Moulin, la Valette-du-Var, France
Mer & Ciel, Musée d’Art, Toulon, France
Winter hike, Etna, Italy
Summer crossing, Rupshu, Spiti, the Himalayas, India and Tibet
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36, rue Falguière
75015 Paris – France
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2013
Le temps de la marche, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles, Archives
départementale, Aix-en-Provence (*) - Within the event Marseille-Provence Capitale
Européenne de la Culture 2013, France
Timescape, Galerie A.Lazarew, Paris, France (*)
Nous nous suivons de près, Fondation Vacances Bleues, Marseille, France
l’Atelier, Eygalière, France
Géographie(s) Humaine(s), Centre d’Art de l’Yonne, Château de Tanlay, France
Et si ce n’était pas la mélancolie, Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles, France
Le Temps de la marche, Galerie J.Greset, Besançon, France (*)
Winter hike, Mercantour massif, Ecrins massif, France
Spring hike, Iceland
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Summer crossing , Ladakh, Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
2012
Excuse me, while, I kiss the sky, Centre d’art Le Moulin, la Valette-du-Var, France (*)
Éric Bourret, Photographies, Galerie DNR, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (*)
La Sainte-Victoire de loin en proche, L’Aigalier, Salon-de-Provence,France
Winter hike, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles mountains, France
Summer hike, Mercantour mountain, France
Summer hike, Changtang and Rupshu, the Himalayas, India
Winter hike, Khumbu, Annapurna and Mustang mountains, Nepal
2011
Élévations, Galerie DNR, l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (*)
Déambulations photographiques 3, Espace Culturel, Le Lavandou, France (*)
Regard sur la Collection, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France
L’Art Contemporain et la Côte d’Azur, un territoire pour l’expérimentation 1951-2011,
Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image, Nice, France
Summer crossing of a glacier, Zanskar and Paldar, the Himalayas, India
Winter hike, Sainte Victoire, Sainte Baume, Alpilles mountains, France
Autumn hike, Mercantour, Queyras mountains, France
Winter hike, Etna, Italy
2010
What do we really know about landscape?, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
(*)
Écrire sur l’eau, Abbaye de Reigny, Vermenton, France (*)
Lure, Musée Prieuré de Salagon, Mane, France (*)
Éric Bourret, Galerie Au coin de la rue de l’Enfer, Saint-Étienne-les-Orgues, France (*)
Méditerranée 2, Chapelle de l’Observance, Draguignan, France
All-season hikes in the Calanques, Marseille
Winter hike, Lure mountain, France
2009
Tout ce qui est à voir est ce que vous voyez, Musée départemental Arles Antique, RIP
Quand la vie est un arbre, Maison de la Nature des Quatre Frères, le Beausset
Winter residence and walk in the territory of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Winter hike, Lesotho
Autumn-winter hike, Lure mountain, France
Spring hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
2008
Hun-Tun, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (*)
Temps de pause, Galerie Annie Lagier, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Hike in the Mont Blanc mountain
All-season walks in the southern Alps, Mercantour, Queyras and Ecrins, France
Spring crossing, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
2007
Hikes in Bagan and Mrauk U, Myanmar
Summer hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, India
All-season hikes in the southern-northern Alps, France Glacier
Spring crossing, France and Switzerland
2006
Le Var et l’ailleurs, L’hôtel des Arts, Toulon (*) All-season walks, coastline, Var region,
France
Spring hike, glacier, France and Switzerland
Spring hike, Ladakh and Zanskar, the Himalayas, India
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75015 Paris – France
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2005
Photographies 1995-2000, Espace Culturel du Lavandou (*)
Summer crossing, Ladakh and Zanskar, India
Autumn hike, mountains of Khumbu, Annapurna, Nepal
Spring hike in Sainte-Baume forest, France
All-season hikes in the Calanques, Marseille
Summer hike, Ecrins massif, France
2004
Montagne au carré, Musée Départemental, Gap, France (*)
fotografías, Galeria, la Otra Banda, Merida, Venezuela
1995-2000 - Égypte, Jordanie, Liban, Syrie, Yémen, Musée d’Archéologie, Antibes
B.U 2002-2004, Bibliothèque Universitaire, Toulon, France (*)
Artist residency and hike around the Pico Bolivar, Venezuela
Winter hike on the Angkor Wat site, Cambodia
Autumn-winter hike, Khumbu mountains, Annapurna, Nepal
Winter hike, Mercantour, France
Summer hike, Ecrins, France
2003
Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest, France(*)
Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France (*)
Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France (*)
Galerie Hédaes Sévira, Paris, France (*)
Autumn hike, Brittany coastline, France
Spring and summer hikes, Queyras, France Winter hike, Mercantour, France
2002
Muséo do Mosteiro de S. Martinho de Tibàes, Portugal (*)
Centre d’art Le Moulin, la Valette-du-Var, France(*)
Musée d’Art, Aurillac, France (*)
Espace Culturel Bernard Dague, Louvres, France (*)
Château de l’Empéri, Salon-de-Provence, France (*)
Cloître Saint-Louis, Avignon, France
Autumn crossing, Ladakh, Zanskar and Changtang, the Himalayas, India
Winter hike, Queyras, France
2001
Espace Peiresc, Toulon, France (*)
Musée Départemental, Gap, France (*)
Les Ateliers de l’Image, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France (*)
Château Borély, Marseille, France
Autumn hike, Ecrins, Devoluy mountains, France
2000
Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France (*)
Espace d’Art les 4 mains, Manosque, France (*)
Hellenic Center for Photography, Athens, Greece
Summer hike on the canal towpath between Nantes and Brest, France
Winter hike, Mercantour, France
Winter hike in the pre-Islamic sites, Lebanon
Summer hike, Irish coastline
1999
Centre d’Art Informel de Recherche sur la Nature, Digne-les-Bains (*) L’Amphithéâtre,
Rodez, France (*)
Château de Servières, Marseille, France
Residency and winter hike, Haute-Provence Geological Reserve, France
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75015 Paris – France
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Spring hike on the Auvergne Volcanoes, France
Winter hike in the pre-Islamic sites, Syria
1998
Centre Culturel Français, Cairo, Egypt (*)
Centre de Coopération Linguistique de Sana’a, Yemen (*)
Residency and winter hike, in the pre-Islamic site, Egypt
Residency and spring hike, in the pre-Islamic site, Yemen
Residency winter hike, Haute-Provence Geological Reserve, France
Autumn hike, Ecrins massif, France
1997
Musée d’archéologie. Nice, France (*)
Galerie Municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (*)
Musée Matisse, Nice
All-season hike, Ecrins and Mercantour mountains, France
Summer hike, Scotland coastline
1996
Galerie XIII, Arles, France (*)
Budapest Galleria, Budapest, Hungary
Centre San Fedele, Milan, Italy
El Centre d’Estudis i Recursos Culturals Pati Manning, Barcelona, Spain
Espace Saint Cyprien, Toulouse, France
Summer hike on the canal towpath between Nantes and Brest, France
Winter hike in the pre-Islamic site, Egypt
Auntumn hike in the pre-Islamic site, Jordan
Winter hike, Negev desert, Israel
1995
The Photographic Museum, Helsinki, Finland (*)
Le Parvis, Scène Nationale, Tarbes, France (*)
Musée de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France (*)
Muséo do Mosteiro de S. Martinho de Tibàes, Portugal (*)
Église de Barcarin, Salin-de-Giraud, France (*)
Autumn hike along the coast of Newfoundland, Canada
1994
Galerie Suzel Berna, Paris, France (*)
Galerie du Hall du Livre, Nancy, France (*)
Château Musée, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Musée de la Photographie, Mougins, France
All-season hikes in the Calanques, Marseille, France
Summer hike in the “Vallée des Merveilles”, Mercantour mountains, France
Summer hike, Irish coastline
1993
La Maison des Comoni, le Revest-les-Eaux
Espace Saint Cyprien, Toulouse
Summer hike on the canal towpath between Nantes and Brest, France
Summer hike in the “Vallee des Merveilles”, Mercantour massif, France
Summer hike in Finnish and Norwegian Lapland
1988-1992
Artothèque, Nice (*)
Gallery Laterna Magica, Helsinki, Finland (*)
Fort Napoléon, la Seyne-sur-Mer
Summer hike, Mercanour, France
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Summer and autumn hike in Cathar country, France
Residency and Autumn hikes in Finnish and Norwegian Lapland
All-season hikes, Sainte Victoire and Sainte Baume mountains, France Walks in
shipyard, Seyne-Mer, la Ciotat and Marseille
Tour in France with Archie Shepp
Autumn hike, Dodecanese Islands, Greece
Summer hike in Corsica
Summer hike in the “Vallee des Merveilles”, Mercantour massif, France
Collections
Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Moderne, Nice, France
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
Le Parvis, Scène Nationale, Tarbes, France
Hôtel des Arts, Centre Méditerranéen d’Art, Toulon, France
Théâtre de la Photographie, Nice, France
Le C.A.I.R.N, Digne-les-Bains, France
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles, France
Musée Prieuré de Salagon, Mane, France
Fonds Départemental, Conseil général de l’Yonne, France
Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Musée Départemental, Gap, France
Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Aurillac, France
Musée Intercommunal d’Histoire et d’Archéologie, Louvres, France
Musée de St Dié-des-Vosges, France
Fonds Communal, Ville de Marseille, France
Fondation Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
Faculté de Toulon, France
Centre d’Études Cathares, Arques, France
Cities of Lyon, Manosque, La Seyne-sur-Mer, La Valette-du-Var, Vitry-sur-Seine
Direction Départementale de l’Équipement, Marseille, France
Artothèques de Draguignan, Fos-sur-Mer, Grenoble, Nantes and Nice, France
Hermès box presented to Heads of State, Council of Europe, Nice, France
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
Muséu da Imagen, Braga, Portugal
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy
Private collections: Europe, South Africa and United States
Publications
Le temps de la marche, Sainte-Victoire, Sainte-Baume, Alpilles text by Pierre Parlant,
Fage editions (2013)
La Sainte-Victoire de loin en proche, texts by O.Domerg, J.M.Gleize, V. Vassiliou, Autres
et Pareils editions (2012)
Trace, Excuse me, while I kiss the sky, text by F. Coadou, Centre d’Art le Moulin editions
(2011)
Écrire sur l’eau, text by J. Py, Centre d’Art de l’Yonne editions (2010)
Lure, text by F. Bazzoli, Fage editions (2010)
Hun-Tun, texts by P. Padovani, G. Perlein and M. Renoue, Fage editions (2008)
Le Var et l’ailleurs, texts by G.Altieri and J. Arrouye, Hôtel des Arts editions , Toulon
(2005)
Montagne au carré, texts by F. Verlinden, P. Grand, O. Domerg, Fage editions (2004)
Regards sur les sites de l’Égypte antique, texts by J. Arrouye, M. Azim, musée d’Antibes
editions (2004)
Nouvelles curiosités, New curiosities, Musée Gassendi, texts by K. Pomian, A. Turner,
S. Bann, J. Fontcuberta, H. de Vries, F. Faure, N. Gomez (2003)
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Matières d’oeuvre(s), text by J.M Lacabe, Galerie du Château d’eau editions, Toulouse
(2003)
Égypte, Jordanie, Liban, Syrie, Yémen, text by G. Beaugé, ville de Salon de Provence
editions (2000)
L’oeil ouvert, un parcours photographique 1983-1998, text by P. Roegiers, Nathan
editions (2000)
Paysages pluriels, text by B. Ely, Filigranes editions (2000)
Plan(s), text by Y. Geffroy, sacripant editions (2000)
Nice, Dix photographes, Une ville, text by X. Girard, G. Gardette editions (1997)
Jean Pierre Bonfort, Éric Bourret, text by G. Jouaville, le Parvis editions (1995)
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