Hubert Marot. The Blueprint

HUBERT MAROT, The Blueprint
exhibition view at paris20, Paris, December 2014

-

HUBERT MAROT, The Blueprint
exhibition view at paris20, Paris, December 2014

-

CY 5, 2014
cyanotype on canvas, 140 x 190 cm

-

CY 6, 2014
cyanotype on canvas, 140 x 190 cm

-

CY 7, 2014
cyanotype on canvas, 140 x 190 cm

-

HUBERT MAROT, The Blueprint
exhibition view at paris20, Paris, December 2014

-

Sans titre (Fleurs), 2014
polaroid emulsion on glass, 20 x 30 cm 

-

-

-

HUBERT MAROT is a french artist who has been making pictures since a couple of years that exploit the photography’s underlying properties. His working process is based on a combination of formal, conceptual, and historical concerns, that questions the material premises of photography and the nature of abstraction, as well as the production and valuation of art.

Titled The Blueprint, MAROT‘ solo exhibition at paris20 featured a recent body of works that comprises cyanotype and Polaroid pieces. For example, CY (2014) is a series of five works on canvas that use the cyanotype process, a photographic technique referred to as ‘blueprint’, which was mainly used for scientific images. In this printing process a support coated with an iron-based light-sensitive chemical is exposed to light, which turns it blue. The canvas are exposed to incident light for a constant period of time, whereby ultimately the various external conditions are what produce the picture. These works, though photographs, have a painterly feel and therefore seesaw back and forth between gestural abstraction and dry conceptualism.

I have little respect for photography precisely because of this notion of reproduction, it makes me very uncomfortable. That’s why I’m very rigorous in the way I create an image, even in the most material sense. It is imperative that I place a sense of value in what I produce, and I am only able to see this value when I apply a rigorous and exacting process. – HUBERT MAROT in conversation with GUILLAUME BLANC for ASX Paris, April 2013

-