PHOTOPAINTING
An invitation to reflect on the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Photographies made with the eyes of a painter,
expressing the mysterious aspect of the "ordinary reality".
Find the extraordinary in the ordinary
Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary – being aware of the beauty in the everyday living.
(Photos made with the eyes of a painter)
The concept of PhotoPainting is making visible the “hidden” beauty of the everyday living and of the small things and at the same time it is an invitation to sharpen our awareness of existence itself and its amazing creative intelligence.
Normally we are consumed by our thinking and feelings about reality, that we don't appreciate the present moment, in this way PhotoPainting is an invitation to be aware of reality as it is, and not as it appears in our minds.
The photopaintings are the result of my everyday living, there are not “composed” nor “arranged”, they just happen, meanwhile I am walking in nature, being in the workshop, doing ordinary things or as a by-product of the creation process itself.
Meanwhile I, do the photos the thinking mind is in off-mode, there is just seeing and the shot, no judgment.
Later on I paint them in Photoshop, doing slight adjustments in colour, contrast and so on, but the composition of the shot itself remains untouched. The process itself is an expression of the concept of PhotoPainting – the composition represents reality as it is, without interpretation, without the need to change something – the painting process stands for the adjustment in our awareness, when we adjust just a bit the way we perceive reality, the hidden beauty becomes real.
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
Gerhard Richter.
