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Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Matthieu Gafsou - Ether
Mar 23, 2016
The series “ether” by the Swiss photographer Matthieu Gafsou makes highly aesthetic structures of human existence in the sky. It makes civilization photographically visible in the sky and show how we have colonized what’s above us. The resulting fine lines and delicate shapes seem to underlie unitary principles and appear as a higher-order structure that is reminiscent of the shape of nature. The captured and seemingly structured phenomena reminiscent of chemical compounds, scientific classification systems, physical laws – the poetic structure of the world. This project is the prologue of an ongoing series questioning limits of science and it's philosophical consequences through the enhancement of human bodies.
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Life is not a beach
Mar 29, 2016 - Matthieu Gafsou
I'm very proud to be part of the exhibition Life is not a Beach, in the Alexander Tutsek Stiftung in Munich. You can see the show until the 24th of june, 2016. Here is the statement written by the foundation:
Continuing its series of thematic exhibitions, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung shows contemporary photographs and sculptures from 22 January to 24 June 2016. Entitled LIFE IS NOT A BEACH, the new exhibition addresses the dark sides of life. One example is the oppressive world of drug addicts. The photographer Matthieu Gafsou documents these in his photographs in an authentic and at the same time poetically sensible manner.
The sculptures, the second focus of the exhibition, were made of the everyday and yet many-sided material glass as well as mixed media. In their diverse works, internationally renowned artists (including Philip Baldwin & Monica Guggisberg, Mona Hatoum, Silvia Levenson, Janusz Walentynowicz) and young artists take a profound look at people’s general fears as well as their inner and outer conflicts.
Matthieu Gafsou (born 1981) studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey and graduated from the University of Lausanne with a master’s degree. His photographs have been shown in various solo and group exhibitions in the USA and Europe and are represented in numerous collections. In 2009, he received the „Prix de la foundation HSBC pour la photographie“. He lives in Lausanne and teaches at the University of Art and Design. http://www.atstiftung.de/ Exhibitions views: H.-J. Becker © Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
Pictures of the wind
Mar 27, 2016 - Matthieu Gafsou
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Etienne Malapert
Mar 25, 2016 - Matthieu Gafsou
Etienne Malapert has been brilliantly assisting me for months. He gratuated from ECAL last june. His diploma project is a documentary about a strange city in the desert:
In 2008, the UAE decided to undertake the construction of an autonomous city «zero carbon and zero waste», located 30km east of the capital, Abu Dhabi. The project Masdar City is a perfect example of land linking the architecture, landscape and environmental technology in anticipation of what might be called «the post-oil era».
The series will be exhibited at the Journées photographiques de Bienne in a few weeks (22.04-22.05)
Beginning
Mar 24, 2016 - Matthieu Gafsou
After several months of requests and negotiations, I finally was able to begin, today, the shooting of some labs working on human-computer confluence and bionics (still un authorized to say where). My project is about post/transhumanism and I have been working on it for months with few results. I don't know yet if those pictures are meaningful or will remain in the final series but I do love this moment when you seem to believe that your project will become something...