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Exposition Exhibition : «Unseen Photo Fair» Exposition Exhibition : Entfaltet (unfolded) by Dominique Teufen Exposition Exposition : unfolded Modifier l'image
Christophe Guy Galerie's press release
Christophe Guye Galerie is proud to present the work of Stephen Gill, Rinko Kawauchi, Brigitte Lustenberger and Dominique Teufen at Unseen Photo Fair 2016. The artists, in different approaches and unique techniques, scrutinize humanity and their environment and straddle the line between photography and art.
© Stephen GILL (*1971, Great Britain), Energy Field #282, 2013-2016
While photography is often seen as the amplification of something, Stephen Gill (*1971, Great Britain) tries the opposite. He wants to quieten things and not enhancing them. This tension stimulates the viewer to think of his or her own story.
© Rinko KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan), Untitled, 2011
Rinko Kawauchi (*1972, Japan) explores the extraordinary in the everyday life, d...
Christophe Guye Galerie cordially invites you to the opening reception of Dominique Teufen's solo exhibition 'entfaltet (unfolded)'. Swiss artist Dominique Teufen graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam in 2002. After working and exhibiting her work in Melbourne, Zurich, London and New York, she moved again to Amsterdam and obtained her Master of Fine Art at the AKV/St.Joost in S'Hertogenbosch in Den Bosch, Netherlands. Returning to Zurich in 2013 she won the vfg Young Photography Award Switzerland and was awarded the Prix MLL from Meyerlustenberger Lachenal.
«Dominique Teufen (*1975, Swiss) spies her motifs not through the viewfinder of her camera, but rather first finds her unique subjects through resourceful research and creative skill. She builds architectural or sculptural-appea...
Christophe Guye Galerie is pleased to announce the upcoming solo exhibition of Swiss artist Dominique Teufen (*1975).
© Dominique Teufen
Dominique Teufen spies her motifs not through the viewfinder of her camera, but rather first finds her unique subjects through resourceful research and creative skill. She builds architectural or sculptural-appearing structures of mirror surfaces – her “flashlight sculptures” – and captures them photographically using a strong flash, the mirrors reflect only themselves and the glaring lights. So committed to paper, the crystalline as well as fleeting “monuments” shine in a seemingly extra-terrestrial grandeur, rendering jewels, ceremonial shrines and palaces in the shadows.
© Dominique Teufen
From the simple, temporary co...