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Jean-Marc Bustamante was born in Toulouse, France in 1952 to a South American father and an English mother. In the late 1970s, after a period of assisting photographer William Klein, Bustamante changed the perception of photography in French art with his monumental Tableaux, a series of photos of the Barcelona region that blurred the boundary between painting and photography. After his four year collaboration with sculptor Bernard Bazile (1983-87), Bustamante continued extending his practice to media other than photography. His work is the perfect synthesis where past experiences merge, embodying different artistic languages that melt in a new and personal visual language. The works depict mental landscapes with a strong poetical impact. His recent works on plexiglass explore a new way of painting, going further into his research with light and colour.

In 2008, Jean-Marc Bustamante was awarded the medal of the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, and in 2003 he represented France in the 50th Venice Biennale. His work was included Documenta VIII in 1987, Documenta IX in 1992 and Documenta X in 1997.

Recent solo exhibitions include Dead Calm at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh travelling to the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Pedigree at Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, 2009; Jean-Marc Bustamante: Lava II, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2008; Le Grand Tour, MAC’s Grand Hernu, 2008; Jean-Marc Bustamante: La Chambre des Saintes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, 2008, and L’horizon chimérique (with Ed Ruscha), Musée d’art contemporain de Strasbourg, 2007. He lives and works in Paris.

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