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Jean-Baptiste Maitre (1978, France), works in Paris and Amsterdam. Maitre received his degrees in Art History (Paris Sorbonne-University, 2002) and Fine Arts (Ecole des Beaux-Arts Paris, 2004) as well as in Studio Photography (Gobelins Ecole de l’Image, Paris, 2004). Maitre did his internship in Art History at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2001 and worked in digital image making and computer generated imagery for advertising agencies (2004-2007). He started his own theoretical research at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Anticipating the iconography of the XXIst century, 2008). In 2010 Maitre completed his artist residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and has developed a large body of works shown internationally.
Maitre develops works creating relationships between painting, cinema and sculpture in order to reinvent the way audiences gain access to information.
His recent production constitute the attempt of the artist to create a different cinema as a tool to meditate on early XXIth century public events, such as the looting of the Iraq Museum of Baghdad on april 9th 2003. Maitre’s meditative cinema technique is inspired by 1960s filmmaker Paul Sharit’s logic of frozen film frames, and 1940s film maker Len Lye’s aesthetic.
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Mes compétences :
Graphic design
Scénographie
