(S)ITOR PRESS RELEASE (S)ITOR presents: Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies. Exhibition from January 31st to February 5th, 2017

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1 (S)ITOR PRESS RELEASE (S)ITOR presents: Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies Exhibition from January 31st to February 5th, 2017 Opening by invitation on Tuesday January 31st, 5pm to 9 pm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 1/10

2 Faces, abstractions, action scenes whatever the subject, movement is always omnipresent, in the hollows of the rips or in the voluntary ridges of the marouflage. The layers are not randomly assembled collages gradually eroded overtime but vibrant coloured compositions treated like paint, impetuous abrasions that bring gestures to life. In this Cinemascope of life, the timeless drawings from posters from the 50s 60s 70s awaken and action takes place in front of our twinkling eyes. It is indeed a complete movie that Dominique Lebrun presents to his viewers, not a frozen picture shot by a photographer but an entire scene in which every detail counts, where back sides transparency can say as much as front sides, mythical logos appeal to our imagination, abstraction becomes life beyond pure and simple lines, and unexpected assemblages disrupt our minds and thoughts. Lebrun is an architect of the image, an inspired editor who knows movies and knows how to create his own with paper and glue and no added artefacts; paper that has absorbed ink and gives back its lustre and glue which links together the various pages of the partition. Moreover, he is a scriptwriter, a photographer, and a musician behind the artist-producer-director. Movies are the passion, the meaning of life, the operating mode of this shrewd collector even in his gestures when he rips apart his posters. It s this passion I invite you to discover in Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies bad boys, comedies, dramas, femmes fatales, handsome boys, icons, peplums, Rin Tin Tin, sagas, spies, superheroes Alongside 20th Century Fox, Cineriz, Cocinor, Columbia, Eastmancolor, EMI, Luxe, MGM, Pathé, Rank, Technicolor, Titanus, United Artists, Warner Bros Sitor Senghor January 2017 Mond (2014) H100 x L100 cm Modèle B (2014) H100 x L100 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 2/10

3 Dominique Lebrun In 2010, he makes his first collage, using his precious collection of «Mon Ciné» 1920 s movie magazines he carefully kept for almost 40 years. Thrilled by this experience, he decides to continue exploring this path, turning this time to his collection of movie posters. Guided by colours, shapes, movement, he tears up, scatters, pastes, superimposes, dislocates, assembles to recompose imaginary scenes, landscapes and portraits, sometimes on the verge of abstraction. Exhibitions follow one after the other at Galerie Flora Jansem, Purgatoire, Galerie Origine, Gallery By Châtel, at La Vigne de Ramatuelle and soon at the Hôtel de Paris in Saint Tropez. «When I was 9, I used to cut photos out of «Cinémonde» movie magazines and paste them in my school notebooks. When I was a teenager, I reclaimed film posters from local theaters playing movies I loved. Today, experiencing the freedom of tearing up and recomposing these treasured items is to follow and transgress at the same time the circle of my life, with passion. Suddenly, deep inside of me, everything feels right and makes sense, at last.» - a 4mn30s film Steve (2014) H97 x L146 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 3/10

4 Dominique Lebrun, Rips, by Frédéric Junqua. Over many years, Dominique Lebrun has collected posters of films mostly unbeknownst to us. The fathomless pit of world cinema is a treasure trove of garish graphics, exultant fonts, hieratic poses and stationary vistas. Dominique Lebrun embraces this vast material, standing as it does the test of time and sight, splits it into fragments only to reassemble it in its whole and in its parts. Acting on inspiration, he brings on new shapes, raises fresh swathes of colour, lends impetus to playful congruities and guilty associations out of the accretion and juxtaposition of shreds from which flow gesture and movement. It is a joyous collage, full of vitality, and also the cuneiform and intimate reinvention of familiar forms, of the idea or the perception which we have or even the recollection: sizes are shuffled, proportions are inverted. The surface is broken and the symmetries it harnessed before are undone: Dominique Lebrun summons a shattered subjectivity, where a detail measures up to the whole. He spreads before the view those facets hidden from the foreground. He introduces forbidden angles. He combines shot and reverse shot and takes us backstage, where the secret and vibrant drama of the set may well unfurl. Non sono (2016) - H100 x L73 cm While Dominique Lebrun has an exacting eye for detail, which he so enjoys transmuting fantasy faces concocted from a diversity of sources; limbs quartered and augmented; horizons stretched out or curbed short, he also speaks from the whole, infuses it with a painterly expression, either relying on an abstract dominant colour or on such elicited shapes as harbour the profusion of signs and volumes. And so we recognise the language of the director, conjuring up on the canvas the heightened stuff of an imagination once confined to reverie and phantasm, in combination with that of the painter, for whom broken images serve as colour, and the life of others, as a pulse. Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 4/10

5 (S)ITOR Practical information 28, rue Beaurepaire Paris Jacques Bonsergent (ligne 5) / République (lignes ) parking : Exhibition from Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon to 8pm High definition pictures (300 dpi) available on request Photo Credits : Jean-Philippe Laraque Contact Sitor Senghor (S)ITOR sitor.senghor@orange.fr +33.(0) Euston (2016) H130 x L192 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 5/10

6 (S)ITOR 007 (2016) H116 x L89 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 6/10

7 One (2016) H116 x L89 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 7/10

8 Nu Ma (2016) H130 x L80 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 8/10

9 (S)ITOR Crwash (2016) H100 x L73 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 9/10

10 Rice (2015) H130 x L89 cm Dominique Lebrun, All My Movies 10/10