Bottles of water, old magazines, a bottle of spicy ketchup, an invitation to a Claude Pompidou homage, a letter from the BNP regarding the renting of a safe... Nothing in Pierre Soulages' garbage can escape the attention of the photographers.
©Drouot
Do you idolize celebrities to the extent of exhibiting their garbage in your living room? Evidently not. On Tuesday, September 28, the Drouot auction house's website auctioned off four odd lots: pictures of Pierre Soulages' trash cans, Kate Moss' trash cans, Damien Hirst's trash cans, and Mick Jagger's trash cans. Paparazzi Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron produced the prints. The starting price is 10,000 euros. What are the outcomes? One of the photographs costs only 13,000 euros. As a result, the reserve of 14,000 to 16,000 euros was not met, and the photographs remained unsold.
Damien Hirst's 'bins' were offered 12,000 euros for Soulages and Moss, while Damien Hirst's was offered 12,500 euros. Mick Jagger's trash wins the prize: 13,000 euros. Not enough to blow you away. These dreadful photographs are from the Autopsy collection, which originated in the 1980s when photographers were destroying Beverly Hills celebrities. The Paparazzi exhibition, devoted to the two troublemakers of the press, opened in February 2020 at the La Hune gallery in Paris's 6th arrondissement. A film saw the buddies going through John Travolta's garbage, picking out a few items and arranging them in a Pop Art manner on the road. Revisiting still lifes.
The photographs available for purchase were taken between 2008 and 2013. By invading the private of the stars, Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron present an anthropological picture of their subjects, in which nothing of their way of consuming is overlooked, which is quite different from the image they return. Mick Jagger, the rocker, seemed to be more interested in the water bottle (53 bought per pack) than the beer bottle, which has two corpses. The only organic trash discovered was citrus peels, beans, a bouquet of flowers, and dead leaves. Is his diet, which consists primarily of pasta and olive oil, the key to his longevity?
There were 161 items available, including a picture of Gainsbourg taken by Hervé Saint-Helier in 1990, which sold for 500 euros.
Selena Mattei