TURBIDE (active 20th-21st c.) Untitled (nudes) Oil... - Lot 83 - Iegor

TURBIDE (active 20th-21st c.) Untitled (nudes) Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the lower right: Turbide 2001 Provenance: Marc Paradis Estate 181.5x117cm - 71x46" Born in 1955 in Montreal, Marc Paradis studied theatre and visual arts. He has also participated to many training workshops from 1978 to 1990 with Josef Robakowsky, Bruno Bigoni, Grotowsky, Michael Kriegman and others. He co-directed Sheme-vidéo with Luc Bourdon in 1984 and Say Cheese for a Trans-Canadian Look in 1985. He has also made video recordings of performances by artists such as Denis Lessard, John Mingolla and Yves Lalonde. His works has earned a degree of national and international recognition and been widely commented on by the critics. His works question love relationships between men, desire, fantasm, sexual representation, sometimes playing on the pornography borders. Marc Paradis' interest for video started in 1981, while he was doing a screen-test for Jean-François Garsi's movie La chambre blanche, he was then the assistant of the french director.