Olivier Charlot Work from Japanese Conjecture. “My initial photographical approach began exclusively on events met in the street. Then my place of experiment moved from outdoor shooting to studio shooting. Nowadays it is important to me to compose my images, independently of happenstance. I can set up events in a process of photographing ideas, sustaining […]
Archives for the ‘french’ Category
Pauline Bastard
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Pauline Bastard Works from Western. These are stills from Bastard’s video in which she traces the contours of the landscape with the spinning color wheel. Much of her other work is quite fascinating as well, I highly recommend her website. “My work is about objects. By making sculptures and images, I create an extravagant dialectic […]
Esther Shalev-Gerz
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Esther Shalev-Gerz Work from her oeuvre. “Esther Shalev-Gerz takes an intuitive approach to the portrait, which she apprehends as a possible reflection of a person, place or event that in itself is never stable or definitive. She is interested in people and in what they say or do not say (their silence) – in their […]
Charlie Youle
Friday, 12 March 2010
Charlie Youle Work from This is the End of the World and Horror, Anxiety, and the Continental Holiday. “This series of prints depicts a quiet and scenic apocalypse, an unexplosive sci-fi fantasy of two worlds nearly colliding. The scenes are set in the past and refer to a constant changing and dying of the surface […]
Antoine Lefevbre
Friday, 12 February 2010
Antoine Lefevbre Work from his oeuvre. ““The exhibition’s multi-disciplinary character is a reflection of the diversity of Parsons Fine Art Program’s student body and their engagement with a wide range of current trends in global art practices,” notes Fine Arts Chair Coco Fusco. ”Students in the program hail from Turkey, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, France, Canada, […]
Jessica Backhaus
Friday, 15 January 2010
Jessica Backhaus Work from One Day in November. “The images from the series, “One Day in November“ is a tribute to Gisèle Freund on what would have been her 100th birthday in December 2008. “One day in November“ is a testament to the friendship between the great photographer and myself, a young photography student in […]
Caroline Devries
Monday, 11 January 2010
Caroline Devries Work from Unknown Known and Templates. “My practice has evolved and is now principally focused on questioning the nature of the photograph, especially the photographic portrait, its physicality and its power of representation in the public as in the private sphere. I wish to explore the complexity and ability of the medium to deliver […]
Thomas Mailaender
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Thomas Mailaender Work from Extreme Tourism and Sponsoring. “Documentation marks the starting point for his work. Using a slightly scientific way of working, he registers insignificant, incidentatlly grotesque moments that possess an abruptand unexepted monumentatlity. For the past years his work mainly focused on playing with the concept of typology. A recently Dead famous french […]
Emilie Halpern
Saturday, 2 January 2010
Emilie Halpern Work from her oeuvre. Artist’s talk at Otis College here. “Emilie Halpern trades on dissonance and contradiction. Working in a mix of mediums, from sculpture to photography, conceptualism to found object installation, she looks for ideas and images that play against each other in surprising ways. Through juxtapositions and combinations of these ideas, […]
Adrien Missika
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Adrien Missika Work from Standing Waves and Postcards. Spend time on his website, the vast majority of his works are excellent. “Notions of authenticity and artificial images are at the heart of Missikaʼs work. He subtly explores the relationship between the viewer and the world and depictions thereof. While his works reflect the visual symbolism […]