Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at Pascal Blondeau's New Exhibition at Gallery Mourlot

French artist Pascal Blondeau has taken an unconventional path to arrive at his goal. After being a singer, a dancer and a scenographer (performance designer) he found his true passion: photography. During his work as a scenographer at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris he photographed his work, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia saw his photos and organized a solo exhibition of his work in 2000. Since than His work is regularly shown in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Blondeau's work focuses on identity and the double "I" that exists in all human beings, a theme he finds especially fascinating. He is constantly seeking an aesthetic and beauty beyond perfection, a quest that often leads us to become lost in the search for a forever unobtainable Absolute.

He works with harsh contrasts - angel and demon, ugly and beautiful, hot and cold, soft and hard - blending these characteristics by mixing photo portraits of real people and display mannequins to create a fusion of real/artificial human beings.

For Blondeau, the human being is "a beautiful monster/invader/seducer, a devastating creature enfolding love and hate all at once." His work is inspired by these sometimes frightening and always passionate subjects.

His new body of work "Swimming Pool, Tribute to David Hockney, 2015" was created when Blondeau was in a vacation at a friend's house built with psychedelic colors and very original materials.

" I was swimming in the middle of a painter's palette, which reminded me of the paintings of David Hockney. I found the idea very interesting to put myself in and out of the water. Thus it became a series about narcissism, a theme I had wanted to deal with for a long time. Also I wanted my work for this series to be closer to Modern Art than Contemporary Art. Working with pools and color compositions allowed me to do this."

Pascal Blondeau's new exhibition will be presented at the Galerie Mourlot on the Upper East Side, Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm, from April 30th and will last for two months.

Galerie Mourlot specializes in graphic works by modern and contemporary artists. Eric Mourlot founded the gallery in Boston in 1991. In 2006, Eric relocated the gallery to New York's Upper East Side. Presently, the gallery focuses on the sale and promotion of modern master and contemporary lithographs through gallery exhibitions, museums, and art fairs. Located at 16 East 79th Street (Between Fifth and Madison), New York, New York 10075.

Photos courtesy the artist.