Through December 24, 2011, the Galerie Agathe Gaillard will exhibit thirty of Charles Matton’s unreleased photographs. Until recently, the artist was known mainly for his recreations of “miniature spaces” which were the subject of a superb exhibition and publication in 2010. But Matton was by turns sculptor, painter, and draughtsman, respecting the limits and particularities of each discipline, ready to switch from one to the other according to his visual needs. Nonetheless, he acknowledged certain privileges that only photography possessed: “the immediacy of execution, the intimacy of expression, and the sheer precision of the captured moment.”

From a series of self-deprecating self-portraits to his experimental “photostats” of the 1970s, the exhibition is nothing short of a revelation that should not be missed.

“For Matton, reality was a fiction to which only art could bear witness.”

Bernard Perrine

You can read in the French version of La Lettre the full text written by Bernard Perrine.

30 unreleased photographs by Charles Matton
8 November-December 24, 2011

Galerie Agathe Gaillard
3 rue du pont Louis-Philippe
75004 Paris

Charles Matton, emboîtement
Flammarion, 2011