Honorable Mention TOKYO-2019 Fine Art / Abstract

Counterpoint

  • Photographer
    Nicolas Lespagnol
  • Technical Info
    Fine Art Muséum 16 Inch X 40 Inch
  • Photo Date
    2016/2018

The counterpoint music of the 15th century rebounds with JS Bach at the 17th with «Art of Fugue». The melodies are intertwined without mixing. Each note retains its independence. I combine two images to multiply the looks, and try to regain the echo of the counterpoint. " Art of Fugue " is also running away, disappearing. Actually, I hope the meaning disappears, because it incentivizes us to compare and then to judge. I’m looking for the pure, simple form. It’s like René Magritte saying, "… make paintings of the real so that they do not correspond to ideas or feelings.  (R Magritte – the words

I am a materialist realist, subjugated by reality as the pioneers of "objective German photography". I need the real to become fiction in the sense that it must surprise me and the viewer as if the image did not seem true. The photography of an object removes part of its essence but seems to add to it one or more new characters that would not even exist in the object simply seen. I am delighted or kidnapped. This leads to disturbances of perspective, depth, sharpness, a game with illusion. I’m interested in the pure, simple form. I hear musicians have similar emotions to mathematicians