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Saison d'art 2015

Alex MacLean

Artiste et aviateur, Alex MacLean photographie, depuis nombre d’années, l’évolution des paysages américains et dénonce sans relâche les "absurdités écologiques" qui marquent notre temps.

Il cherche à mettre en lumière ce qu’on ne peut ou ne veut pas voir, "ce qu’on  regarde sans comprendre, et particulièrement les liens qui régissent les interstices entre la nature et la ville". Ses images mettent en évidence "les effets du temps, les mouvements géologiques, les systèmes mouvants de limite des paysages, de dispersion des habitats, de redéploiement, d’empiètement des surfaces et des activités".

Il peint aussi sans relâche les blessures de la terre abîmée par l’industrie et la destruction progressive de paysages somptueux.

Ses images, paradoxalement éblouissantes de beauté, dénoncent certains excès peu responsables de l’activité humaine : carrières à ciel ouvert ou champs pétrolifères, dont les vues aériennes du photographe exhibent, avec force, la démesure et les dangers.

REPÈRES BIOGRAPHIQUES

Alex MACLEAN
ÉTATS-UNIS
 
 
Alex MacLean vit à Lincoln dans le Massachusetts et travaille à Cambridge aux Etats-Unis. Ses œuvres ont été exposées aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Europe et en Asie. On les retrouve aussi bien dans des collections publiques que privées ou encore dans des universités.
 
Pilote et photographe, Alex MacLean s’inscrit dans la grande tradition de l’imagerie aérienne. Cependant, il cherche moins à magnifier un paysage spectaculaire qu’à restituer l’histoire et les évolutions des territoires qu’il photographie. L’artiste met en lumière les déplacements, les recompositions de l’espace, les effets du temps, les aménagements qui reconstituent les blocs, les frontières et les interstices.
Tractor grating, Mountain iron, MN 20142014 - © Alex MacLean
Oil swirls on tailing pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 - © Alex MacLean
Surface oil on tailing pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 - © Alex MacLean

RÉCOMPENSES (SÉLECTION)

2009
CORINE International Book Award
 
2007
Boston Society of Architects
Brandeis University
 
2006
Boston Society of Landscape Architects
Flying Elephant Fellowship
 
2003-2004
American Academy in Rome
 
2003
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
 
2002
Kansas City Design Center
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
 
1997
The American Institute of Architects
The American Society of Landscape Architects:
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

COLLECTIONS PRIVÉES ET PUBLIQUES (SÉLECTION)

3M Corporation
American Bell
Arthur Anderson and Company
Bank of America 
Banque Nationale de Paris
Centre Pompidou
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Chase Manhattan Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizen’s Bank, USA
Consolidated Freight
Dean Witter Reynolds
DeCordova Museum
Dudley and G. Herschbach
Dunn and Bradstreet
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES (SÉLECTION)

2014
Aerial Perspectives, Beetles + Huxley Gallery, London, Royaume-Uni
 
2012
Sur les toits de New York, Domaine du Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre d’Arts et de Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire
 
2011
The American Landscape at the Tipping Point, Galerie Robert Koch, San Francisco, USA
L’Avenir du Futur, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
 
 
2010
On the Edge: An Exhibition of Alex S. MacLean’s Work, Vue Privée, Singapore
Vegas/Venice, ERES Stiftung Gallery, Munich, Allemagne
Alex MacLean: Given a Free Hand, Biennale d’Architecture de Venise, Italie (Collateral Show)
 
2009
Art into Action, Mid America Regional Council, Kansas City, USA (permanent installation)
 
2008
Domaine du Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre d’Arts et de Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire
Over the Top, Galerie Miller Block, Boston, USA
New Work, Lincoln Library, Lincoln, USA
 
2007
American Artifacts, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Wellesley College, Horticulture Visitor Centre, Wellesley, USA
 
2006
Italian and French Landscapes, Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, USA
 
2003
Patterns on the Land, Gallery Katz, Boston, USA
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Waltham, USA
Americaland, BETC Euro RSCG avec le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris
 
2002
Play in America Seen from the Sky, Les Rencontres d’Arles, 33ème Festival International de la Photographie, Arles, France
Urbanscapes, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Perspectives, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Boston, USA
 
2001
American Institute of Architects (local chapter), Dallas, USA
 
1997
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Galerie Kathleen Ewing, Washington, USA
 
1994
Aerial Landscapes, Seaside Institute, Seaside, USA
 
1993
Looking at the Land, Galerie Kathleen Ewing, Washington, USA
Aerial Landscapes, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, USA
Aerial Perspectives, Lincoln Library, Lincoln, USA
 
1990
From the Air, Galerie Kathleen Ewing, Washington, USA
 
1988
Galerie Bell Ross, Memphis, USA
 
1987
Bain and Company, Boston, USA
 
1986
Currier House, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
 
1984
San Francisco International Airport, USA
Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, USA
 
1980
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston, USA
 
1978
Galerie Alfred Stieglitz, New York, USA
Baker Library, Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, USA
 
1977
Galerie North Street, Boston, USA

EXPOSITIONS DE GROUPE (SÉLECTION)

2013
Art Prize 2013, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Views from Above, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Landmark: the Fields of Photography, Somerset House, Londres, Royaume-Uni
Bird’s Eye View, Westport Arts Center, Westport, USA
 
2010
Return of Landscape, Academy of Art, Berlin, Allemagne
Green Planet Blues, Sinaia, Roumanie
The World: The Top View, Public Exhibition, Center of Moscow, Russie
 
2009
Photo Peuples et Nature, Annual Outdoor Exhibition, La Gacilly
Human = Landscape, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, USA
Galerie Clark, Lincoln, USA
Human = Landscape, Galerie Burlington Firehouse, Burlington, USA
Market Forces/Part I: Consuming Territories, Galerie Erna Hecey, Bruxelles, Belgique
Economies of Scale, GalerieMiller Block, Boston, USA
6ème Festival annuel de la Photographie, La Gacilly
 
2008
Moving Through New England, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
Beyond the Backyard, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Three Photographers, Three Publications, Galerie Kathleen Ewing, Washington, USA
Market Forces/Part I: Consuming Territories, Carriage Trade, New York, USA
 
2007
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, USA
Italian Atlas 2007 Portrait of a Changing Italy, National Museum of the XXI Century, Rome, Italie
TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
 
2006
Painters of Modern Life: Donation – The Caisse des Dépôts, Photographic Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris (fait maintenant partie de la collection permanente du Musée National d'Art Moderne)
Looking at the Landscape: Environmental Puzzles from Three Photographers, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, USA
 
2005
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Les temps des lumières, Nancy
 
2004
Inhabiting the World, Forum Universal des Cultures, Barcelone, Espagne
Shock and Awe, Art Works for the Earth, La Nouvelle-Orléans, USA
Landscapes, Issabella/Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italie
Structure; Architecture in Photography, Gallery Katz, Boston, USA
Shrinking Cities, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Allemagne
 
2003
Toward the Horizon, Commerce Trust, Kansas City, USA
 
2002
Water: An Exhibition of Photography by ASMP New England Photographers, Akillian Gallery at Massasoit Community College, Canton, USA
 
2001
Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bruxelles, Belgique
Landscapes Seen and Imagined: Sense of Place and Water: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
 
2000
Mutations: Événement Culturel sur la Ville Contemporaine, Arc en Rêve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux
 
1999
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec, Canada
 
1998
Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Drive-Ins: Disappearing Summer Cinema, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Water, Water, Everywhere . . . and Not a Drop to Drink, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, USA
Ground Control, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA
 
1997
Let It Snow!, Galerie Kathleen Ewing, Washington, USA
Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction, Galerie D.C. Moore, New York, USA
Lasting Impressions: Looking at the Land, The New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, USA
 
1996
The DeCordova Collects Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, USA
Silver Traces, The Boston Photo Collaborative, Boston, USA
 
1993
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, University of Pennsylvania, School of Landscape Architecture, Philadelphia, USA
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
 
1991
Good Sports: Art and the Athlete, Nutrilite Exhibit, Buena Park, USA
 
1990
Images of New England, Galerie The Wrubel, Concord, USA
 
1989
In Search of the American Experience, Museum of the National Arts Foundation, New York, USA
 
1988
Aerial Views of the Landscape, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
 
1987
Skyborne: Aerial Photography, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA
The Edge of Perception, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, USA
 
1986
One Percent for Art and the Rebirth of Madonna Hall, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, USA
 
1984
Urban Landscapes, Galerie Wilhelm, Houston, USA
Highlights from the Bank of America Collection, Bank of America Office Headquarters, San Francisco, USA
 
1983
H2, Pan American Building, New York, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)
Contemporary Landscapes, Freeport McMoran, New York, USA (Museum of Modern Art Advisory Service, curator)

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

2012
Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces (Paris, France: Editions La Découverte)
 
2010
Vegas/Venice (Munich, Germany: Schirmer/Mosel)
Free hand to Alex MacLean (Paris, France: Carre Editions)
Chroniques Aériennes (Paris, France: Editions La Découverte)
 
2008
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.)
 
2007
Visualizing Density (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
 
2006
The Playbook (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson)
 
2005
Air Lines (Salem, Ma: Peabody Essex Museum)
 
2003
L’Arpenteur du Ciel (Paris, France: Textuel)
Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air (New York, NY: Thames and Hudson)
 
2002
The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate (Washington, DC: Island Press)
Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Rural Areas (Chicago: APA Planners Press)
 
1999
Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road (San Francisco: Chronicle Books)
 
1996
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press)
 
1994
Cities of the Mississippi: 19th Century Images of Urban Development (Columbia: University of Missouri Press)
 
1993
Look at the Land: Aerial Reflections on America (New York: Rizzoli)

DISTINCTIONS ET PRIX

2009
CORINE International Book Award: For OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point
This award is given to outstanding works of fiction and poetry as well as for excellent non-fiction books. The award was created in order to promote the cultural and economic relevance of the medium book at one of the world’s foremost publishing places, which is Munich, and to further promote reading and to explore new fields to readers.
 
2007
Boston Society of Architects: Honor Award for Design Excellence, for Photographs of New Research Buildings Woods Hold, Massachusetts, designed by Ellenzweig
Brandeis University: Bolli Distinguished Speakers Award, March
 
2006
Boston Society of Landscape Architects: Award of Excellence
 
2003-2004
American Academy in Rome: Awarded the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture
 
2003
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “The Urban Edge: Aerial Illustrations of Contemporary European Growth Patterns,” November
 
2002
Kansas City Design Center: First recipient of the Center's resident design fellowship. Participant in project entitled "Sustaining a Sense of Region: Civic Dialogues on Ecology, Urbanism, and Metropolitan Growth."
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Grant Recipient, “Visualizing Density,” Joint Research Project with Julie Campoli, Landscape Architect
 
1997
The American Institute of Architects: Eighth Annual Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing awarded to “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,”
The American Society of Landscape Architects: Honor Award in Communications bestowed upon “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,”
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “The Relation of Inner Cities and Outer Cities between New Haven, CT and New York City,” Joint Research Project with Dolores Hayden, Yale University School of Architecture Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Professor of American Studies,
 
1995
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “Historical and Contemporary Land Patterns in Vermont,” Research and Development for Exhibit and Book Project
Eleventh Annual American Photography Competition: Certificate of Excellence
 
1994
Seaside Institute, Escape to Create Program: Artist in Residence
 
1992
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Grant Recipient, “Taking Measures Across the American Landscape,” Exhibit and Book Project
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Co-principal Investigator in affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Registration Project, 1990-1992
 
1989
The Massachusetts Art Fellowship Program: Finalist
 
1988
Artists’ Liaison Exhibition: Finalist
 
1985
Massachusetts One Percent for Arts Program: Grant Recipient, Madonna Hall Commission
 
1981
National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant: Demonstration project exploring the uses of aerial photography for urban planning, 1980-1981
 
1980
Ossabaw Foundation: Project Member
 
1979
The Massachusetts Art Fellowship Program: Finalist

COLLECTIONS PRIVÉES ET PUBLIQUES

3M Corporation
American Bell
Arthur Anderson and Company
Bank of America 
Banque Nationale de Paris
Centre Pompidou
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo
Chase Manhattan Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizen’s Bank, USA
Consolidated Freight
Dean Witter Reynolds
DeCordova Museum
Dudley and G. Herschbach
Dunn and Bradstreet
Federal Express
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
Fidelity Investments
First Boston
GTE
George H. W. Bush Library
Goldman Sachs
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
IBM
Institut d'art Contemporain
Jean-Pierre Michaux
Jean Louis Maubant
Jeremiah Eck
J. P. Morgan
Merrill Lynch and Company
Metropolitan Life
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago      
North Dakota Museum of Art
Northrop Corporation
Progressive Companies
Reliance Holding Group
Security Pacific Bank
Smith Barney
Steven Spielberg
Texaco
Texas Instruments
U.S. Alliance
The Waterfront Center

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