{"title":"Victor Boullet","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"philip-glass-5th-october-1995-new-york-city-book-victor-boullet-9781908806079","title":"Philip Glass 5th October 1995 New York City","description":"In 1995, while visiting New York, Victor Boullet managed to secure a portrait sitting with the composer Philip Glass in his New York townhouse. In ‘Philip Glass 5th October 1995 New York City’, Boullet reveals the entire unedited portrait session including every frame, along with his contact sheets.  In this sequence of photographs and Boullet’s accompanying essay, which amusingly recounts the story behind his morning with Philip Glass, Boullet’s portrayal of the composer and his own thoughts, mishaps and insecurities coincide to create a double portrait of the artist and his sitter.    \"Portraying someone connected to culture or fame can be a way of climbing a social ladder just by being associated with the sitter, I have used this to my advantage, but this was not the case that day I rang Philip Glass, I was a fan and bored.    The playing stopped.  Silence.  Footsteps.  There he was in front of me, Philip Glass. He looked at me with a startled expression, first at my face, then down at my shoes.  He then rapidly moved his eyeballs towards my yellow plastic suitcase containing my camera, he lifted his head and sort of looked behind me, and uttered: is that all?”    - Victor Boullet  Antenne Publishing is delighted to present its first major publication: Philip Glass 5th October 1995 New York City by Victor Boullet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741688209681,"sku":"NGR9781908806079","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1908806079.jpg?v=1751421753"},{"product_id":"joyful-confusion-book-victor-boullet-9780954401603","title":"A Joyful Confusion","description":"Victor Boullet has emerged as a thought-provoking artist with an unusual perspective.  His book entitled A Joyful Confusion, hints at the varied subject matter that has come under his scrutiny becoming subject to his skewed perspective on the world.   The various series of images in this book seem to be unrelated and unconnected, when in fact there is very much a common thread running throughout the book.  Boullet bases his work on confusing, indeterminate and cryptic messages, he wants his works to remain open to a diversity of interpretations; there is therefore no text to come to the rescue.   His approach to his work is the search for the absurd, coupled with an underlying doubt about the way we stage our lives – Boullet demonstrates the absurdity of the most bizarre aspects of postmodernist life and is sceptical to the individual's need to orchestrate scenes in his own life.  Boullet asks: are these stagings true or false? A sense of belonging and acceptance is a recurrent theme in his work.   This publication is not a retrospective, but a vehicle allowing Boullet to explore and develop works in progress.  The second phase in this process is found in his following book Social Hypocrite.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50127743451409,"sku":"NGR9780954401603","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0954401603.jpg?v=1750884814"},{"product_id":"kronos-book-victor-boullet-9781908806017","title":"Kronos","description":"Estate Of is the new publication series from Antenne Publishing. Published twice a year in a magazine-like stapled format, each edition is given to a single artist working with photographs as a space to realise projects.  Estate Of aims to become a meeting point between an informal physical object, and a substantial body of work from an individual artist. Kronos by Victor Boullet is the first publication in the Estate Of series. Victor Boullet’s title refers to the Greek god Kronos, a deity known for its doublesidedness, a concept closely connected to his project The Institute of Social Hypocrisy.  The publication Kronos is a means to carry his work forward into a newer form of expression, whilst maintaining a constant sense of dichotomy.      The act of art production becomes a performance. The photographs serve as a documentation of performances made in the artist’s private domain; his apartment in Paris, a holiday home on the Scottish coast.  Spaces that are so personal as to allow the work to become an existential exploration.      The works themselves, invariably, seem to hold no meaning with a rawness and naivety that could be perceived as covertly provocative.  When asked to discuss the content and concept of this publication, Boullet declined, saying it was all too personal and to make of it what we will.      Boullet uses text as a means for miscommunication and confusion where personal musings are incomprehensible and impenetrable.  Where elements of commercial branding are integrated into painting, performance and text works, Boullet considers the pretense and affectation brought about by wearing brands, thus creating a product of himself.      Questions are raised as to whether the works are entirely serious or whether there is an element of fun being poked at the notion of what it is to be an artist.  The imagery is presented as an imperfect document not to be taken at face value.  The very question of truth underpins Kronos.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51419851063569,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51419851260177,"sku":"NGR9781908806017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/190880601X.jpg?v=1751419498"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-victor-boullet.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}