Alan Aubry’s photographic behavior tries to answer with rigour a commitment taken during the last years of his studies. It is during these years , in the fine arts college of Rouen (France), that Alan Aubry turned towards photography.
During his course , he discovered the work of Charles Marville, Eugène Atget and the american movements notably the “New Topography” which will mark him profoundly.

At the end of his studies, he realized meticulous images of fictitious landscapes and imaginary adventures (unknown rockclimbing, world tour, lost cities, etc.)

With the desire to investigate another world , he leaves the field of fiction for the one of objectivity and, in the style of a geologist, photographs the urban modifications revealed by construction sites.

Photographing first of all in a instinctive way, Alan Aubry structures bit by bit his artistic method by applying precise protocols - frontality, serial work - and by dedicating himself to the observation of the daily world in his construction and his stage setting.

This accumulation of objects and sites in everyday life attempts to reveal the essence of things and places, by tearing away the veil of habit.
Furthermore, the absence of any human presence, the disappearance of any movement (space and time) congeal and confer to these places a strange and disturbing stature.

Alan Aubry was born in Rennes in 1974, has graduated from the fine arts college of Rouen in 1998 and obtained in 2002 a grant from French Cultural Department.

Alan Aubry works with middle and large format, and lives in Normandy, near Rouen (France).

 

2007

HABITER, FACE A FACE B, Château Stanislas, Commercy, France.

GALA. Lied Museum, Las Vegas, United States.

Artisitc Grant from the French Cultural Department.
(individual grant for creation)

2006

CITADELLE. Galerie Boumier. Versailles, France.

RELAIS. Galerie Du Bellay. Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.

PARIS PHOTOGRAPHIQUE. Espace Beaurepaire. Paris, France.

 

2005

LES NOUVEAUX LIEUX DE SOLITUDE. Pôle image de Haute-Normandie. Rouen, France.

CITADELLE, Galerie Plume. Le Mans, France.

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, HypeGallery. Arles, France.

 

2004

HYPEGALLERY. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

 

2003

ALAN-AUBRY.COM. Ouverture du site internet

 

2002

LES ICONOCLASSES 4. Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot.

Artistic grant from the French Cultural Department
(individual grant for creation)

 

1999

CAMP DE BASE. château de Val Freneuse. France.

DIPLÔME 98. Grande Galerie de l’école des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. France.

 

1997-1998

À NOUS YORK. petite Galerie de l’école de Beaux Arts de Rouen, France.

 

1997

1.2.3 SOLEIL. éxposition itinérante et collective, Haute-Normandie, France.

FESTIVAL VIVA CITÉ, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France.

 

1996

FESTIVAL MÉTAMORPHOSE. Darnétal, école d’architecture de Normandie, France.

 

1995

TAMGRAM. Galerie du Bellay, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Magazine NUKEMAG, N° 2. publication de la série « Citadelle ».

Magazine NOWMAG, N° 1. Entretien et publication de la série « Rencontres ».

DRAC 76. édition regroupant les artistes soutenus, période 2000 / 2004 (textes de Léonor Nuridsany).

LES ICONOCLASSES 4. Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot.

À NOUS YORK. édition collective d’un recueil photographique suite à un voyage à New York.