• Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023
  • Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023
  • Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023
  • Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023
  • Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023
  • Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023

Martin Essl Le bateau ivre Paris 2019–2023

The title Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) refers to the poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud, in which he uses the image of a boat to represent a man’s journey through life. In a poetic photographic essay structured like a play in five acts, Martin Essl redraws the outline of a city in transformation and composes an abstract and contemporary map of Paris. »Le bateau ivre leads us on a Parisian tour that shows the eternal return of the same, like a curtain that opens and closes endlessly. As if diluted and transformed, under the influence of variations around cold colors, the Parisian space gradually becomes acqua alta, geographical, social, cultural, and temporal boundaries are dissolved.« (Sarah Sauquet)

Cloth hardcover with tipped-in plate and in slipcase 22,5 × 30 cm 240 pages 149 color illustrations Available ISBN 978-3-96900-173-8 2024

Artist:

Martin Essl

Design:

Martin Essl

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Art Paris 2024 with Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

Photo Basel 2024 with Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

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