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Sans Limites

by Théo Gosselin

Photographs: Theo Gosselin

Publisher: Editions du LIC

112 pages

Pictures: 55

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-82-93341-10-9

Comments: First Edition of 1250 copies. 22.0 cm x 29.0 cm. Hot foil embossed printed pearlescent hardcover. Offset printing

The much anticipated follow up to his highly successful debut book, Avec Le Coeur, Sans Limites by Théo Gosselin presents a glimpse of a life beyond boundaries - unrestricted by limitations of geography and social conventions. The result of the photographer´s most recent road trips across the US, Spain, Scotland and native France, Sans Limites presents a significant evolution of Gosselin´s long term project; photography sur le motif ("of the object(s) or what the eye actually sees") and his attempt to communicate the actual visual conditions seen at the time of the photographing.

At times, Gosselin´s work approaches something akin to poésie bucolique; his photographs representing modern day pastoral landscapes that resemble 21st century equivalents of Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego, Manet's Déjeuner sur L'herbe or Cézanne's Les Grandes Baigneuses. At other times, his images capture moments more resonant of Bacchanalian scenes painted by Titian, Rubens or Levêque.

Deliberately cinematic, Gosselin's photography reveals friends in the act of escaping from their regular lives into newly enticing and perilous modes of existence, ever in search of the persistent though elusive idea of freedom.

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