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Simon Chaput
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Simon Chaput - Nude Dune
Nudes turn slowly into dunes; dunes transform into the essence of a human body. This striking visual alternation can be observed in the recent work ‘Bare Landscape (2007)' by Simon Chaput, which is at the very core of his first solo-show at Fifty One Fine Art Photography. The viewer embarks into a nocturnal landscape with dunes, as complicated and thrilling as a human body in its pure essence. The abstraction of the nude has been pushed through to the extreme; what remains is a fine (horizon)contour. One could see in this image a synthesis of several famous pictures by the master in abstraction Edward Weston (1886-1958): the series ‘Dunes, Oceano, 1936' and ‘Nude on Sand, Oceano, 1936'. The essential and purified approach of Weston's dunes and nudes in the sand, meet in Chaput's work in one powerful image. The nude...
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Nudes turn slowly into dunes; dunes transform into the essence of a human body. This striking visual alternation can be observed in the recent work ‘Bare Landscape (2007)' by Simon Chaput, which is at the very core of his first solo-show at Fifty One Fine Art Photography. The viewer embarks into a nocturnal landscape with dunes, as complicated and thrilling as a human body in its pure essence. The abstraction of the nude has been pushed through to the extreme; what remains is a fine (horizon)contour. One could see in this image a synthesis of several famous pictures by the master in abstraction Edward Weston (1886-1958): the series ‘Dunes, Oceano, 1936' and ‘Nude on Sand, Oceano, 1936'. The essential and purified approach of Weston's dunes and nudes in the sand, meet in Chaput's work in one powerful image. The nude...