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Carmen de Vos
Amaluna's Day Off Number 53 - Polaroid, Lightbox, 21st Century, Women, Color

2016

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£1,133.81
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CA$2,088.74
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'Amaluna's Day Off' by Carmen De Vos No. 53, lightbox 52x52cm, Unique Piece 1/1, 2016, signed Please note, this piece runs on European Voltage. Which will dim it a bit in the US. Possible solution would be exchanging the light sources. 2016 - TOERISMEKANTOOR KNOKKE HEIST - Knokke, Belgium - Amaluna’s Day Off The Belgian photographer Carmen De Vos got the unique chance of capturing some of the iconic characters from Amaluna in and round their natural biotope: The Grand Chapiteau of Cirque du Soleil. She captured the artists in an unusual context in a unique wayward series of Polaroids. Her playful stories begin where their magical show ends. In an installation of prototype lightboxes she presented 31 scenes that evoke the fictitious life of the characters on their day off. Each box is a hand crafted pièce unique, hand signed by the artist on the back. Dimensions: 52x52 cm. Carmen De Vos - Artist statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography with her Polaroids.
  • Creator:
    Carmen de Vos (1967, Belgian)
  • Creation Year:
    2016
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Width: 20.48 in (52 cm)Depth: 7.68 in (19.5 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Morongo Valley, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Carmen de Vos #0071stDibs: LU65234485552

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