Argenteuil
Argenteuil
Jonathan Reeve Price, Argenteuil, 2018, Giclée print, 50" x 44" (254 x 225.6 cm)
From right to left, the river runs mustard brown. Roads have overtaken the alleys of Argenteuil. Highways zoom past on the banks of the Seine, as the sluggish water moves north from Paris, branded by the mapmakers with the identity of the A86. In 1872, Claude Monet painted the sailboats in that "basin" of Argenteuil, the cove where they could anchor out of the main rush of the current.
Now the labels and lines of the map emerge like skeletons beneath the skin. I've walked this territory, looking for the spots where Monet painted: an exercise in imagination, really, not history, because the river has been straightened out since then, traffic has taken over, and barges, not canoes or sailboats, slide under the railroad bridge rebuilt after the Franco-Prussian war.
I destroy, to analyze. You can see me looking at the map, in the Atlas Routier de France, which shows France at a scale of 1 centimeter equal to 2 kilometers. I've blown it up, zoomed in, accepted the degradation, to see the way the roads have been built up, laid down, twisted and merged, to produce a very French slow chaos.
My colors fill in the outlines, then overflow.
My tools get embedded in the image, showing the trace of Pixelmator, Paintbrush, SuperVectorizer, and PhotoBooth.
A crude combination, then, an imaginative reconstruction of this riverbank town, now a down-at-heels suburb of Paris.
For more on this series, see our book, Remapping Paris:
For Kindle, Tablet, or Phone:
To follow blog posts about the series, see our blog:
https://museumzero.blogspot.com/2019/01/remapping-paris-13-argenteuil.html
Our Process
Your picture gets our careful, individual attention.
We print it on a baryta-coated fiber-based satin paper with excellent archival properties, enhanced definition, and extended tonal range. Then we laminate the print to preserve the image against fingerprints and dust. Overall, our printing process takes approximately two weeks.
We then ship the print to you in a solid mailing tube, using U.S. Priority Mail, insured for the full value. We send you an email with the tracking number. Shipping usually takes 2 business days.
To get in touch, email us at jonathanreeveprice at mac.com
From right to left, the river runs mustard brown. Roads have overtaken the alleys of Argenteuil. Highways zoom past on the banks of the Seine, as the sluggish water moves north from Paris, branded by the mapmakers with the identity of the A86. In 1872, Claude Monet painted the sailboats in that "basin" of Argenteuil, the cove where they could anchor out of the main rush of the current.
Now the labels and lines of the map emerge like skeletons beneath the skin. I've walked this territory, looking for the spots where Monet painted: an exercise in imagination, really, not history, because the river has been straightened out since then, traffic has taken over, and barges, not canoes or sailboats, slide under the railroad bridge rebuilt after the Franco-Prussian war.
I destroy, to analyze. You can see me looking at the map, in the Atlas Routier de France, which shows France at a scale of 1 centimeter equal to 2 kilometers. I've blown it up, zoomed in, accepted the degradation, to see the way the roads have been built up, laid down, twisted and merged, to produce a very French slow chaos.
My colors fill in the outlines, then overflow.
My tools get embedded in the image, showing the trace of Pixelmator, Paintbrush, SuperVectorizer, and PhotoBooth.
A crude combination, then, an imaginative reconstruction of this riverbank town, now a down-at-heels suburb of Paris.
For more on this series, see our book, Remapping Paris:
For blog posts on this series: https://museumzero.blogspot.com/2019/01/remapping-paris-13-argenteuil.html