Christian Noirfalise
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Christian Noirfalise exhibition
Christian Noirfalise (°1979, Laken, België), who majored in painting, creates portraits, landscapes and still lifes, classical themes which constantly reappear. However, his work is anything but classical: he doesn't work on canvas but uses a camera and Photoshop. Christian doesn't hide the fact he works with Photoshop because his work isn't about creating the perfect photograph. He uses pieces of photographs as strokes of paint as it were. With a painter's eye, he applies light and shadow, various tints and certain proportions to create a balanced work.
His early work consists of a series of portraits which are simultaneously landscapes. Imaginary landscapes based on conversations with the subjects, and created with pictures he took which he preserves in an extensive archive. In more recent work, present and p... - Exposition
Christian Noirfalise
Still life, landscape, portrait. All classical themes in art history, but also still important for today's artists. Instead of paint, Christian Noirfalise uses his camera. He combines these three themes with his own images. One work sometimes contains over three hundred images from his personal archive. It is important for him that the images used come from his own archive or from the person that he portrays. This to guarantee that there's a story behind every detail that is part of the big picture. By bringing all the elements together, Christian turns it into a narrative picture and suggests in a very philosophical and poetic way something what he tries to show in detail: an interpretation and at the same time an evolution in landscape and portrait art. ...
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Christian Noirfalise (°1979, Laken, België), who majored in painting, creates portraits, landscapes and still lifes, classical themes which constantly reappear. However, his work is anything but classical: he doesn't work on canvas but uses a camera and Photoshop. Christian doesn't hide the fact he works with Photoshop because his work isn't about creating the perfect photograph. He uses pieces of photographs as strokes of paint as it were. With a painter's eye, he applies light and shadow, various tints and certain proportions to create a balanced work.
His early work consists of a series of portraits which are simultaneously landscapes. Imaginary landscapes based on conversations with the subjects, and created with pictures he took which he preserves in an extensive archive. In more recent work, present and p...
Still life, landscape, portrait. All classical themes in art history, but also still important for today's artists. Instead of paint, Christian Noirfalise uses his camera. He combines these three themes with his own images. One work sometimes contains over three hundred images from his personal archive. It is important for him that the images used come from his own archive or from the person that he portrays. This to guarantee that there's a story behind every detail that is part of the big picture. By bringing all the elements together, Christian turns it into a narrative picture and suggests in a very philosophical and poetic way something what he tries to show in detail: an interpretation and at the same time an evolution in landscape and portrait art. ...