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Two exhibitions from June 19 to July 14 2022
"PHENOGRAPHIES"
Francis TEYNIER
"TWIGA"
Florence Devaux-Dabenoc
"FLAMINGO"
Jonathan LHOIR
FRANCiS TEYNiER
Born in 1947 in Paris into a very cultural and artistic family, I have lived and worked most of my life in Copenhagen, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, as well as in New York, Stockholm, Žilina (Slovakia) and La Réunion.
As an urban planner, I was attracted to photography at an early age. It was during my stay in Reunion Island that I found particular inspiration in Chinese philosophy and in the work of the Chinese photographer Lang Jingshan (1882 -1995), particularly in his landscapes in composite photography.
Since 2012, I have devoted myself to the series "Phenographies", suggesting realities that are perhaps unknown but where abstraction is only apparent.
The series has been presented in numerous exhibitions in France, Scandinavia and Central Europe.
I divide my time with my wife between Saintes in Charente-Maritime, and Bratislava (Slovakia).
PHENOGRAPHIES
Through the test of the elements, let us lose ourselves in phenomena which are only unknown or abstract because we have not seen them.
This series was born out of research into the five elements - wood, water, earth, metal and fire - whose graphic qualities have long fascinated me.
It is also based on Chinese thought, for which all phenomena in the universe result from an unstable cycle of creation and destruction between these five elements.
Photographic combinations of these five elements, the "Phenographs" thus reproduce phenomena to be discovered by each person, based on his or her experience or imagination.
The intentional absence of overly obvious references to scale invites visual journeys between the infinitely small and the infinitely large. It doesn't matter whether your vision matches mine or not - that's also why I didn't want to give titles to the pictures.
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on the 1st floor of the gallery
"PORTE-PLUMES"
Nathalie Houdin
Florence Devaux-Dabenoc
I love to explore many areas of photography.
What I like is to try to look at the world around me differently, to compose with the light, the atmospheres, the framing, the movement,
to identify attitudes, pictorial details, to flirt with the abstract sometimes, in a word to CREATE.
I have a particular affection and attraction for black and white. I find that it allows to go to the essential, to give another dimension to the image and often to exacerbate the graphics.
But whatever technique you choose, the essential is elsewhere. The key word is emotion.
And when I manage to convey the one I felt or the one that the viewer will appropriate by looking at the image,
it is very fulfilling!
" Je m'habille en Praha "
Comment ne pas tomber sous le charme de Prague, capitale de la République Tchèque et de la région historique de Bohême ? André Breton faisait de cette ville "la capitale magique de l’Europe ". C’est en effet une ville empreinte de magie, non seulement par la présence légendaire des alchimistes au XVIe siècle, mais surtout par la trace de plusieurs cultures qui se sont entremêlées en ses murs. Blottie dans les méandres de la Vltava, tour à tour ville royale, cité impériale, bourgade provinciale assoupie puis capitale renaissante d’un État moderne, Prague a cumulé au fil du temps les strates successives d'un patrimoine architectural et artistique incomparable. La ville, avec plus d’un million d’habitants, est également connue comme “La Ville aux Cent Clochers”.
Visiter Prague revient à découvrir le décor d’un conte de fées. Les rues semblent avoir été créées pour le simple plaisir des sens. L’atmosphère médiévale qui enveloppe la ville est capable de faire remonter ses visiteurs dans le temps. Une chose est sûre, cette sublime ville est très inspirante !
