Summer exhibition at the Espace Culturel Cofea in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe!
Jean-Luc Labrette and Georges Quéméner: two photographers, two techniques, two worlds.
Jean-Luc Labrette has been a self-taught painter since he was a teenager, and began taking photographs in 1984. Yet it is photography that has taken precedence over painting in his practice for more than a decade, although painting has not totally given up. Jean-Luc Labrette is passionate about plastic photography. Playing with the materials of the subjects photographed by interpreting them, freeing them from their context through digital work designed to provoke questioning. He sometimes takes out his brushes and knives to add manual interventions: highlights of paint, engraving or sanding are examples of his practice.
Georges Leduc-Quemener is a self-taught artist, unable to finish any form of schooling. His photographic practice might seem very close to so-called "plastic" photography in the "plastic" effects he achieves by damaging his photographic negatives. However, his approach is not to abstract reality in order to approach art, it is to make the false visible in his images, to reveal all the practice and the lie that is hidden behind each
image. He remains a photographer, and the destruction of his negatives is simply an attempt to regain a little power over the perfectly deceptive images that are constantly imposed on us in advertising.
Open daily from Saturday 5 July to Sunday 31 August, 2.30pm to 6pm.
Free admission.
Jean-Luc Labrette has been a self-taught painter since he was a teenager, and began taking photographs in 1984. Yet it is photography that has taken precedence over painting in his practice for more than a decade, although painting has not totally given up. Jean-Luc Labrette is passionate about plastic photography. Playing with the materials of the subjects photographed by interpreting them, freeing them from their context through digital work designed to provoke questioning. He sometimes takes out his brushes and knives to add manual interventions: highlights of paint, engraving or sanding are examples of his practice.
Georges Leduc-Quemener is a self-taught artist, unable to finish any form of schooling. His photographic practice might seem very close to so-called "plastic" photography in the "plastic" effects he achieves by damaging his photographic negatives. However, his approach is not to abstract reality in order to approach art, it is to make the false visible in his images, to reveal all the practice and the lie that is hidden behind each
image. He remains a photographer, and the destruction of his negatives is simply an attempt to regain a little power over the perfectly deceptive images that are constantly imposed on us in advertising.
Open daily from Saturday 5 July to Sunday 31 August, 2.30pm to 6pm.
Free admission.
Opening times
Opening times
From 5 July 2025 until 31 August 2025 -
