![]() Marie AMAR / untitled (2011) ![]() Nicolas BLUCHE / bell (2011) ![]() Nicolas KOWALSKI / untitled (2011) Biographies
Roger Szmulewicz , Director of the Gallery FIFTY ONE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY in Antwerp, artistic advisor to The Brewery, presents a photographic exhibition whose speech is the story of the place, like a thought articulated in three distinct visions ... Marie AMAR , Nicolas BLUCHE and Nicolas KOWALSKI , three photographers from very different backgrounds, wear a cross look on this place that becomes work. Their writings intersect and intertwine. The three artists have designed a set of pictures related to the special architectural and historic space. Play of light, they summon the references, thoughts, memories, absences and push us to introspection. This reading works, looks and points of view, we refer to overlapping images of the present and the past through memory and emotions. An art of fragmentation, which is reconstructed for each so unique and very personal. Marie AMAR focuses on the variation of time, space and matter. She appropriates the space of La Brasserie, it comes to travel, transcription, coding and poetry, and pass the moulting of the territory. These works take into account and both the architecture and the experience of a crossing. These images meet the mind of the viewer and the result is something exclusive to each game that combine materials, textures, reflections, illusions and diversions. The artist explores materiality and brings out subtle figures and ephemeral forms that surround them. Emerges from the chaos of a landscape construction loan refinement. This work introduces a reflection on time and deformations memory. The visitor is carried by the vision of the passage of time. Nicolas BLUCHE reconstructed from scattered images of reality, that our visual memory has collected. These images are then blended to give up the originals from which they arise, and thus confront us with an illusory representation, created from scratch.
Images of Nicolas BLUCHE offer looks ambiguous, questioning the perception. The artist leads us to doubt the constant questioning of our ability to observe and understand.
He grabbed spaces, shifty plans, reconstitutes the observed strata, and recomposed by giving them another volume. It shakes up the prospects and challenges us to go in depth in the image, like a dream snapshot. Traces of the past in this bind, and we offer a golf trip to multiple dimensions. The works are to be interpreted freely over each eye. Nicolas KOWALSKI are interested here in the visible or invisible memory of places and people. The artist draws particular attention to objects that we rarely consider the aesthetic qualities. His photographs of miscellaneous objects refer to memories that everyone endorses.
This is actually objects left behind. The image has to pass these objects to the ordinary least the border of art. They become alive by the simple fact of having been taken from the place they belong overloaded. No staging was required. Simply detached from their context, they change their status, if not in nature, and appear as art installations. Between documentary and fantasy, these photos put reality and fiction in a kind of uncertainty. The look is laid starting point of a historical progression towards a truth revisited. past (re) compounds La Brasserie / Veronique Damagnez |