Saturday, April 7, 2012

Beauty

Wilhelm von Gloeden - Portrait
Musée d'Orsay, Paris


Why does this portrait move me so much ? I love everything in this young man face... The headband across the hairs, the roses as a symbol of flying youth, the almond eyes whose outline is emphasized by a pen... A delicate drawing adds the ultimate touch to a sensitive photograph...

As always, I felt in love with the face of a dreaming lad, displaying his beauty to the viewer, looking elsewhere, beyond the photograph, looking inside, looking to his soul...

Von Gloeden's photographic art displays as much as it hides. It leaves so much space for imagination, for desire and feelings...

Von Gloeden's photographs as always are at the same time the very peak of modernity, with a brand new technology, and the archaeological remain of a very old time, Ancient Greece, with its ephebs, with the poetry of their beauty, with the ethics of the love they inspired to older man...

During the late XIXth c., Greece, classical culture and literatures, ancient statues or frescoes, Greek and Latin poets, Mediterranean landscape and light were a needed alibi for all those who loved in a different way and who needed photographs to mirror their desire, their vision, their identity.

Wilhelm von Gloeden did not shoot photographs. He offered mirrors to so many men of his time. And beyond.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Lord Biron, Soungouroff et autres...


La Galerie parisienne Au Bonheur du Jour propose du 4 avril au 26 mai 2012 une exposition-vente sur le thème "Nus masculins asiatique" avec des photographies de Biron.

The Parisian Art Gallery Au Bonheur du Jour has a new exhibition from april 4th to may 26th about "Male Asian nudes", with photographs by Biron.

Biron. Jefferson Chen

Vous trouverez également une sélection de tableaux et de dessins de Soungouroff, Gaston Goor, Michel Gourlier, A. Aumaître, Czanara, Andrien Icardo, Emile Aubry, André Ragot, Roland Caillaud.

You will find also a unique selection of paintings and drawings by artists such as Soungouroff, Gaston Goor, Michel Gourlier, A. Aumaître, Czanara, Andrien Icardo, Emile Aubry, André Ragot, Roland Caillaud.


Soungouroff (1911-1982). Jeune homme au panier de fruits (1955)

Soungouroff (1911-1982). Le pécheur (1951)

Soungouroff (1911-1982). Saint Sébastien (1947)