Cristina Fontsare

An Uncomfortable Bride - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, abstract

2020

'Shadow Play', diptych - 2016 'We painted the room deep blue sea over the mint green and opened the blinds, allowing the sun to flood in waves across the walls. We furnished it in l...

In Bloom - 2020 Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 25x20cm Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. a...

In Bloom - 2020 Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 50x40cm Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. ...

Altstadt Rêveries #06, 2008 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE, Hand signed & numbered by the artist, edition of 7 - nr 02 Unmounted. 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...

Persephone lll (2006) by Erik Pawassar, large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest i...

Yellow Haul by Erik Pawassar 48 x 63 inches (122 x 160cm) edition of 7 signed 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered b...

Yellow Haul by Erik Pawassar 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) signed edition of 25 48 x 63 inches (122 x 160cm) signed edition of 7 archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by artist on label custom/larger sizes are available on request ________________________ Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph. Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...

Blue Bird by Erik Pawassar 48 x 65 inches (122 x 165cm) edition of 7 signed 30 x 40 inches (76 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed archival fine art pigment print signed & numbered by ...