{"id":1466,"date":"2025-10-24T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stam.mmkt.dev\/col-leccions\/joel-peter-witkin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:05:40","slug":"joel-peter-witkin","status":"publish","type":"col-leccio","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacio-stampfli.org\/fr\/collections\/joel-peter-witkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel-Peter Witkin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">L&rsquo;oeuvre<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitation, Paris\/New Mexico (diptyque)<br\/>2004<br\/>27,1 x 27,5 cm<br\/>Tirage argentique<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le diptyque Visitation, Paris\/New Mexico de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9ricain Witkin \u00e9voque un th\u00e8me classique de la vie de Marie, m\u00e8re de J\u00e9sus. Apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9e par un ange qu&rsquo;elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisie pour \u00eatre la m\u00e8re d&rsquo;un fils de Dieu, Marie rend visite \u00e0 sa cousine \u00c9lisabeth, \u00e9galement enceinte de celui qui deviendra plus tard Jean-Baptiste.<br\/>Dans cette visite particuli\u00e8re, Witkin modifie la sc\u00e8ne. Le visiteur n&rsquo;est pas Marie, mais un pr\u00e9dicateur d&rsquo;un certain \u00e2ge, enti\u00e8rement v\u00eatu de blanc. Isabelle est une tr\u00e8s jeune fille et tous deux se trouvent dans une baignoire qui annonce le culte du bain comme bapt\u00eame purificateur. La colombe a \u00e9t\u00e9 remplac\u00e9e par un cheval \u00e9galement blanc qui appara\u00eet \u00e0 droite de la sc\u00e8ne.<br\/>L&rsquo;artiste utilise une technique de sursaturation de la lumi\u00e8re qui donne lieu \u00e0 une sc\u00e8ne o\u00f9 se croisent le r\u00eave et la religion. La petite fille dans la baignoire, la couleur blanche, le cheval et le pasteur avec la Bible \u00e0 la main cr\u00e9ent une atmosph\u00e8re inqui\u00e9tante et irr\u00e9elle.<br\/>En contraste, l&rsquo;autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 du diptyque est totalement diff\u00e9rent. Une jeune femme nue, allong\u00e9e sur un canap\u00e9 ou un lit, se couvre les yeux. Sur son corps, les points essentiels de la maternit\u00e9 sont entour\u00e9s de cercles trac\u00e9s \u00e0 l&rsquo;encre noire. \u00c0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du sexe, un petit squelette ajoute au myst\u00e8re de l&rsquo;ensemble de l&rsquo;image, rappelant la c\u00e9l\u00e9bration caract\u00e9ristique de la mort dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 mexicaine. La femme est allong\u00e9e dans une pi\u00e8ce encombr\u00e9e d&rsquo;objets, avec une \u00e9trange silhouette qui passe apparemment inaper\u00e7ue car elle est totalement floue et boug\u00e9e (un ange ?). Alors que la partie gauche est nette et claire, la partie droite est floue, avec une pr\u00e9sence \u00e9trange qui renforce le caract\u00e8re onirique de l&rsquo;ensemble.        <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">L&rsquo;artiste<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(Brooklyn, N. York, 1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parmi ses principales influences, Witkin cite Giotto, le peintre transcendantal toscan du XIVe si\u00e8cle. Cette affirmation se comprend imm\u00e9diatement \u00e0 travers la composition et l&rsquo;organisation des sc\u00e8nes photographi\u00e9es par Witkin ; les images de profil, les volumes ind\u00e9pendants bien d\u00e9finis et la solennit\u00e9 des sc\u00e8nes sont renforc\u00e9s par une intensit\u00e9 lumineuse \u00e9blouissante.<br\/>Ses photographies abordent souvent des th\u00e8mes et des sujets tels que la mort, le sexe, les cadavres (ou parties de corps) et des personnes telles que les nains, les transsexuels, les hermaphrodites ou les personnes pr\u00e9sentant des malformations physiques. Ses compositions complexes \u00e9voquent souvent des passages bibliques ou des peintures c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, conf\u00e9rant \u00e0 son art un caract\u00e8re \u00e0 la fois transgressif et surprenant. Il est consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un \u00ab amoureux des ind\u00e9sirables, des bless\u00e9s, des parias \u00bb, et cette acceptation inconditionnelle caract\u00e9rise g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement son \u0153uvre, \u00e0 l&rsquo;instar de saint Fran\u00e7ois d&rsquo;Assise.<br\/>Son approche du processus physique de la photographie est tr\u00e8s intuitive et consiste notamment \u00e0 tacher ou \u00e0 rayer le n\u00e9gatif. Malgr\u00e9 les controverses et le fait que les photographies de Witkin aient fait leur entr\u00e9e dans le monde de l&rsquo;art \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les \u0153uvres photographiques y \u00e9taient rarement pr\u00e9sentes, il a eu l&rsquo;opportunit\u00e9 de rejoindre les mus\u00e9es les plus modernes du monde, tels que la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale \u00e0 Paris, le MoMA de San Francisco, le Stedelijk Museum d&rsquo;Amsterdam, le MoMA de New York et le Whitney Museum.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2156,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1466","col-leccio","type-col-leccio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joel-Peter Witkin - Fundaci\u00f3 St\u00e4mpfli<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacio-stampfli.org\/fr\/collections\/joel-peter-witkin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joel-Peter Witkin - Fundaci\u00f3 St\u00e4mpfli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"L&rsquo;oeuvre Visitation, Paris\/New Mexico (diptyque)200427,1 x 27,5 cmTirage argentique Le diptyque Visitation, Paris\/New Mexico de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9ricain Witkin \u00e9voque un th\u00e8me classique de la vie de Marie, m\u00e8re de J\u00e9sus. 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