Miniaturenausstellung SMALL is the new big
Herman Van Synghel
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SERIES Point de vue (7 ex), 1/7 to 7/7 Magnani 300gr, American case Balsawood
»I try to reduce the image to its essential form by eliminating all that’s redundant. I look for images that can be stripped down, sober and unadorned. Pared-down images, but strong and poetic: the image of a collective memory becomes a universal language. The superfluous is gone, what's left is the real memory, the essential in its simplicity and effectiveness, what you need to keep on strengthening the pillar of your existence.
The ›wavy‹ embossing refers to old photographs that were in vogue some 80 years ago that had an undulating border added while developing the photo, contrasting the squareness of the image. This ›old look‹ is contrasted with the subject itself; it contradicts this embossed vintage photoframe. I don´t only use this vintage’ embossed framing, but also a rather recent image framing – although it is almost vanished too – that of SX-70, the format of the instant polaroid images, predecessor of the Iphone framing... «
Herman Van Synghel, né 1955 in Gand (Belgien), Professeur PAO, Etudes à l’ Académie d’art à Ostende (Magna Cum Laude), prix: Cercle Cecilia (érigé par James Ensor), expositions divers, e.a. Festival itinérant d’art contemporain Occitanie 2024, This is the Future of Non-Objective Art!/ Gallery Atlantic / New York 2024, La grande Laissive Narbonne 2023, Journée des Ateliers d’Artistes d’Occitanie 2023, XIth Biennale Internazionale per l’incisione - Premio Acqui / Exposition en groupe / Italie 2018.
Kontakt:
Mail: herman@vansynghel.eu