exhibition

New Portraiture

Details

• Location: Paris
• Date: 2015
• Gallery: Xpo Gallery
• Gallery: Transfer Gallery

Description

Rollin Leonard's artist statement for the exhibition:

New Portraiture (2015) is a collection of photographic, semi-sculptural objects that are rearrangeable or flexible. The subject for the pictures are people flattened by uniform lighting and a depth of field where everything is in focus. The method for extruding the surfaces back into round objects varies: light is refracted and distorted in water, polygon matrices of the photographic surfaces are crumpled into heads, and an enormous plastic figure is skewed by the viewer’s perspective. The aesthetics of these objects are taken from digital manipulations. Words like “liquification”, “bulging”,” and “skewing” are used to name image manipulations in Photoshop but are, of course, only analogies. I wanted to rediscover the physical analogs of effects like these. In movie making there is a distinction between effects done physically, called practical effects, and those done in post-production, called visual effects. My effects are practical effects attempting to emulate the computer generated magic …"

Source:

• https://slash-paris.com/en/evenements/rollin-leonard-new-portraiture/sous