# Philippe Calandre

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'''Philippe Calandre''' (born 1964) is a French artist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philippe Calandre |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Philippe-Calandre/870C620E76F266C2 |publisher=Mutual Art |access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref> who combines photography, painting, and video.

== Early life ==
Calandre was born in [Avignon](/source/Avignon), France in 1964. At 16, Calandre worked for two years as a [shipman](/source/wiktionary%3Ashipmen). He realized he was meant to be an artist while completing a portrait shoot.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

== Professional career ==

Over several years, he split his time between personal research, travelling from [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) to [Russia](/source/Russia), and his work as a press photographer. {{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

After an exhibition in [Paris](/source/Paris) and [Beirut](/source/Beirut), a [Parisian](/source/Parisian_(department_store)) gallery, [Zabriskie](/source/Zabriskie_Gallery), decided to include his work alongside those of [Weegee](/source/Weegee) and [Leonard Freed](/source/Leonard_Freed) as part of its « Une nuit, un voleur » series in 1996. A few years later, the National Fund for Contemporary Art acquired ‘Ghost Stations’, a series depicting abandoned gas stations that Calande discovered during his highway rambling. {{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Calandre is particularly interested in architectural photography and still life. In all his photographic series, what he views as 'reality' serves as the foundation from which he creates his worlds where an ambiguity exists between the real and the imagined settles in. {{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

His studies often were used as a springboard to highlight everyday architectural aspects, pulled from their daily lifelessness and given life. Gas stations, then his ‘silos’, which were presented at FIAC in 2001 by Anne Barrault, the Parisian gallery, with whom the artist collaborated from 1999 to 2007, were lifted to the realm of the supernatural. {{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

For ‘Insomnia’ (2006), which depicts strange nocturnal apparitions, Calandre explored the world of the fantastic with pure and spooky scenes.

From 1996, his various series have been displayed in galleries, museums, and contemporary art shows in [France](/source/France) and abroad from [Greece](/source/Greece) to [Argentina](/source/Argentina) to the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands) and back to [New York](/source/New_York_(state)) and [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan). {{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.philippecalandre.com/ Official Website]

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