Corinne Vionnet, From the series “Paris Paris Paris”, Eiffel, 2022
As the Olympics continue in the most iconic venues around Paris, Corinne Vionnet has just completed the latest series in her ongoing Photo Opportunities focusing on re-imagined images of Paris. An online exhibition of the work can be viewed August 5- September 6, 2024 at Danziger Gallery.
Beginning in 2004, before many other contemporary artists began layering jpegs pulled from the internet, what struck and interested Vionnet was that when tourists went to a popular travel destination they often tried to recreate picture they had already seen, one in the collective imagination, rather than seeing it freshly through their own eyes.
Arc Carrousel du Louvres, 2022
Vionnet searched various online tourist travel sites looking for variations of the same “iconic” views. She collected and layered approximately 100 of these images on top of each other to arrive at a new conglomerate image that had a photographic basis, a painterly aspect, and a conceptual underpinning. With the skill to adjust the layers, Vionnet produced works that both time travel and crowd source. In her earlier picture of the Taj Mahal, for example, some of the layers date back to photographs taken over a hundred years ago.
Notre-Dame, 2017
Now adding to her photographic atlas, Vionnet has re-created images of Paris’s celebrated views – the Eiffel Tower, The Seine, The Arc de Triomphe, The Louvre, Notre Dame, The Grand Palais, The Centre Pompidou, and others.
Vionnet’s work has been exhibited and/or acquired by SF MoMA; The Victoria and Albert; The Musée Carnavalet; C/O Berlin; Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum; and Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao.
Palais Garnier, 2019
Pyramide du Louvre, 2007
Beaubourg, 2019
Images Courtesy of Danziger Gallery
