Patrick TOSANI
Patrick Tosani was born in 1954 in Boissy l'Alleriez in Val d'Oise. He lives and works in Paris.
Throughout his artistic work, Patrick Tosani has made photography a reflective object. Each of his series since 1975 has in fact been constructed according to a theoretical presupposition and the creation of his images appears like the verification of an idea. In this way, it can be assimilated to the legacy of what Jeff Wall, for a time, called “photoconceptualism”. [...] Tosani also largely participated in the 1990s in the emergence of new photographic practices in the field of contemporary art. Tosani started from the principle that, despite the evidence of its power of reproduction of reality and its accuracy which give it the means to “scrutinize the surface of things”, photography deserves to be understood according to a methodical approach nourished by “ a protocol of performative experiences”.
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