9/28/2013

IL GIARDINO

Did some work on pictures i made last year in the awesome botanic garden of the austrian artist André Heller in Gardone at Lake Garda, Italy - a really amazing place.
You can find more about it here: Giardino Botanico - André Heller


















More Photo at my homepage

9/27/2013

UPDATE OF MY HOMEPAGE...

I have updated my homepage - you can find there now some of my latest works...
Chris deMatté . Fine Art Photography



And meanwhile in Russia... ;-)


9/18/2013

Vadim Gushchin Exhibition 
THE ART OF CREATING ART...


Being in Moscow I visited today (again) the "Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography" to have a look at an exhibition which description sounded quite promising...



Quite an interesting exhibition with about 80 photographs of trivial everyday objects. Technically well done, nice lighting...it reminded me on my first year at the photographic college when we had to do a lot of this things to learn about lighting technics...


But then I came across a quote of Vadim Gushchin...

"I am - an artist.  I mean, I consider myself as an artist more than a photographer, although, of course, and I am also a photographer, because what I do is photograph."

Here we are again... The big question "What is art?"...

And then I found this on the gallerie's website:
"Staying in the genre of still life, the photographer developed his unique architectural style - clear, concise and extremely expressive. Meticulously examine the possibility of visual, Guscin created a real "saga about the subject" - a philosophical register of the material world around us, "poetic catalog" of things, in fact the same - thinking about time and about the person.".
And this reminds of a story a colleague once told me: He was sending some of his pictures to a famous museum in Paris, but they where returned to him on the ground that they didn't fit into the museum's portfolio (another saying for "we don't like your work"...). After some times my colleague asked a friend who called himself "philosopher" to write some text fot the same pictures. He got this text (and admitted that he didn't understand half ot what his philosopher friend had written) and sent the pictures together with the text to the same museum - and this time they where exepted...
Maybe beeing sucessfull in art doesn't need some unique work but just good (self-)promotion?
Here are some more examples of Gushin's work:



Don't misinterpred me: I like his work. Technical clean. Nice done prints... But is it "art"?


I personally like Guy Boudin's sentence about photography and art much more:

"Whether or not I create art is not of importance. For me, photography is a mean of expressing my wonderment at objects or certain people, a way of celebrating the poetry of nature or the melancholy of passing time."