| Exhibition from September 11th to
September 29th 2007 Opening Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 (5pm-7pm) |
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maîtres photographes du quebec
(CANADA)Fundraising exhibition for the benefit of St.Justine's Hospital for Children, in collaboration with Gallery Gora. Photography event: get the chance to have your children's pictures taken by our photographers!
vlachy
(SLOVENIA)Through the camera's lens, Vlachy channels distinctive creative insight in order to capture fleeting and highly sensuous instants of time. His photographs, which have been recognized within the international art scene for over a decade (in 1988, he received the first international award of note in Luxembourg), nostalgically evoke the atmosphere of a passed age, one in which photography did not yet engage with its mimetic and positivistic nature. In these images, color, composition and perspective, which can be reduced to mere formalisms if depleted of an author's idiosyncratic imprint, are skillfully handled and infused with a distinguishing, sensual charm. Vlachy's luxurious photographs nurture the idea of an urbane eroticism as well as the pleasure of looking. But beyond this aesthetic sophistication, Vlachy's pictures stage a deliberate examination of the age-old rapport between artist and model. While this exploration begins by emphasizing the voyeuristic gaze, it swiftly progresses to a more complex investigation of the model's ambiguity. Combining sensuous playfulness with an undertone of restraint, Vlachy's images highlight the model's identity as indefinitely perched between vulnerability, influence and authority.
(Adapted from a text by Aleksander Bassin)
zakrajsek
(SLOVENIA)Zakrajsek was born in 1962 in Ljubljana where he attended the School of Design from 1977 to 1981. From 1982 to 1986, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, then continued to deepen his knowledge and skills at the Centre Internacional de Recerca Grafica in Spain in 1988. He also received a grant from the Japanese government to study at the Tama Art University in Tokyo as well as Hanga-Kobo-Seya-ku Private Atelier for printmaking, where one of his mentors was Harumi Sonoyama, along with other master wood engravers Fumio Kitaoka, Yuki Rei, and Seiko Kawachi.
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