The elusive may be due to the author’s cryptic will and often conceals a narcissistic need that overcomes the art work making it remote and unknowable, sometimes the elusive is able to exercise a fascination and desire to possess the key that will lead to perception of the sublime masterpiece. Iwjla Klinke’s works belong to the latter category. We can detect the many cultic stratifications, the Flemish influences, the symbiotic relationship of still life and portrait, the magic of contemporary knights and madonnas, the clear seduction of the rites of passage, and, despite these multiple readings, we go back with our look to these art works to be again kidnapped because they retain a further secret that attracts us as only Beauty can. In the artist’s vision we track those that the ethno-anthropologist of the last century Van Gennep defines rites of separation from the asexual world, magical initiation rituals that Western culture is no longer able to compose in the traditional way but still resist in other unexpected forms. Iwajla Klinke digs, with lyrical elegance, ritual elements and symbols so that we perceive the moment of crisis, putting herself in the power role of initiator imprinting an ideal succession to the sexual world. Adorning the subjects is itself process of change and initiation rite. The artist, along with the subject, decides which path to cover, how to express the several forms of their world, which traditional costumes have to be used. The portraits are always on a black backdrop and are made with natural light.
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
Créée par le Musée de l’Elysée à Lausanne, l’exposition Hans Steiner Chronique de la vie moderne a été présentée à la Fotostiftung de Winterthour, à la Médiathèque Valais-Martigny et au Museo Villa dei Cedri de Bellinzona.
Mouna Saboni est d'origine bretonne, de mère française et de père marocain. Elle a 23 ans et termine sa troisième année à l’ENSP d’Arles. Je voudrais voir la mer est présentée dans le cadre du festival des Boutographies, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier dédiées aux jeunes photographes. La série sél...
Awol Erizku's photographs reference classical art works to include models of color in order to emphasize, and draw attention to the lack of racial diversity represented in art history.
Erizku creates images such as, Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009 in which he repl...
Originally conceived for and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the upcoming exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation is dedicated to Newton’s first three legendary publications. The motifs published in the books have been transformed into exhibition prints. During Newton’s lifetime, these photographs bordering between fashion and nude ph...