ANTOINE ROSE & ANTOINE DUFILHO AT THE CANNES YACHTING FESTIVAL

Antoine rose has commenced working on “up in the air” series in 2002, while he was shooting the kitesurfing world cup in Rio de Janeiro. The oversized photographs oblige the viewer to have a closer look in order to distinguish what they really represent. With regard to this aspect, rose’s powerful camera allows for the highest resolution even for the smallest detail. These miniature-like representations transform the natural aerial landscapes into abstract paintings and inscribe rose’s works in a minimalist artistic approach. The artist introduces a tension between real and virtual, between what it seems to be seen and what it is really seen, between the visible and the hidden. 

Antoine Dufilho combines his passion for cars with his knowledge of architecture and medicine to devote himself to sculpture. His work consists in exposing an alternation of full and empty, materializing a skeleton, breaking down the forms into successive layers. A movement is created by this sequenced representation, bringing lightness and dynamism to the general form. It is thus a kinetic vision of a static object that the artist offers us, in particular thanks to the wandering of its observer, which allows a different interpretation according to its point of observation.

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