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In her latest series Plastic Baroque, Emmanuelle
Gauthier explores the latest techniques of digital
manipulation to create a refined and glamorous
body of work. Layering lush imagery and sensibility of
European and American painting to create
contemporary photographs of intricate beauty. Her
composition
is simultaneously dense and fluid with rich
coloration and painterly quality.
Emmanuelle explores a favorite subject in different
hues, her candy colors entice the viewer. Creating a
dreamy allure the images are charged with a Baroque
sensibility, seducing the viewer with fairytale
settings and subtle luminosity.
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Incorporating painting into my photography and
using special transfer techniques I give them the look
of a colorized daguerotype.
Adding a single color to the entire image, the color
then becomes as important as the image. I'm mostly
draw to French Baroque and 19 century American
landscape painting. The vibrancy of the colors and
the plexiglass presentation gives this series a
contemporary sleek and plastic feel...Combining the
old with new I reinterpret classical imagery into a
modern, original and enigmatic aesthetic.
Emmanuelle Gauthier,
New York, 2006-
Edition of 3 + 2 Artist proof-
2 sizes available: 30 X 40 Inches, 20 X 24 Inches-
"Syrup" series is available on nine colors in 20 X 23 Inches, and 40 X 46 inches for wall installation-
Artist Statement-
"Interventions"
Video art together with photography examine the
parallels and liaison between history and truth. The
two mediums address issues of misinterpretations,
miscommunications and language barriers .
Other themes such as life and death, human rights and
the rights of
animals are very close to my mission of wanting to
make a positive change in our life and, give back to
this world elements of beauty and wonder.
Characterized by a visionnary force, the works trace a
sense of tragedy and fragility. Inspired, intricately
and sensuously styled, the art video
titled "Lace" presents lustrous images voluntarily
slowed down: capturing and contemplating the
moment...all in a surreal film speed. It translates
dreamy and eery qualities to movement decomposition
and into a different environmental transposition.
Against a curtain of violent rupture/ isolation, and a
will for using art as an export for social progress
and awareness, the images' aesthetics import a wide
range of poetic interpretations.
Experiencing with new software techniques and digital
interventions the photography juxtapositions or layers
deepens and
twists meanings.
The moving images are mixed in with music composed
with fragmented sample sources running across
cultures, time and sensibilities. The piece highlights
and emphasizes the importance of cultural differences,
the richness and depth of cross cultural exchanges as
well as tolerance, and dignity.
Emmanuelle Gauthier
NYC, 2006
"Interventions"
Video art together with photography examine the
parallels and liaison between history and truth. The
two mediums address issues of misinterpretations,
miscommunications and language barriers .
Other themes such as life and death, human rights and
the rights of
animals are very close to my mission of wanting to
make a positive change in our life and, give back to
this world elements of beauty and wonder.
Characterized by a visionnary force, the works trace a
sense of tragedy and fragility. Inspired, intricately
and sensuously styled, the art video
titled "Lace" presents lustrous images voluntarily
slowed down: capturing and contemplating the
moment...all in a surreal film speed. It translates
dreamy and eery qualities to movement decomposition
and into a different environmental transposition.
Against a curtain of violent rupture/ isolation, and a
will for using art as an export for social progress
and awareness, the images' aesthetics import a wide
range of poetic interpretations.
Experiencing with new software techniques and digital
interventions the photography juxtapositions or layers
deepens and
twists meanings.
The moving images are mixed in with music composed
with fragmented sample sources running across
cultures, time and sensibilities. The piece highlights
and emphasizes the importance of cultural differences,
the richness and depth of cross cultural exchanges as
well as tolerance, and dignity.
Emmanuelle Gauthier
NYC, 2006
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